394 ^ je Natural History of Se I borne 



were a little scorched on the south sides were perfectly 

 untouched on their north sides. The care taken to shake the 

 snow day by day from the branches seemed greatly to avail 

 the author's evergreens. A neighbour's laurel-hedge, in a 

 high situation, and facing to the north, was perfectly green 

 and vigorous ; and the Portugal laurels remained unhurt. 



As to the birds, the thrushes and blackbirds were mostly 

 destroyed ; and the partridges, by the weather and poachers, 

 were so thinned that few remained to breed the following 

 year. 



