14 MEMOIR OF 



grow ; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an 

 end and another is born." 



Selborne seems to abound also in cats as well as children ; 

 every cottager seems to keep a cat. Perhaps there are no more 

 cats here than in any other place. The appearance is probably 

 due to the place being so quiet that cats leave the cottages and 

 lazily prowl about out in the roadway. On the top of 

 White's house I watched for some time a white puss wandering 

 over the tiles. She was evidently after the chimney swallows. ' 

 These poor birds were greatly terrified, and kept working round 

 the cat as starlings or jackdaws would round a hawk ; they were 

 screaming loudly with fear. Their nests were in the chimneys, 

 and if the cat got down the chimney she could, I dare say, have 

 got a weakly-Hying young bird for her trouble. 



At page 3 there will be found Mr. Delatnotte's pretty- sketch 

 of the Well-head. White knew nothing about hatching salmon 

 and trout by artificial means. I have never seen a better place 

 than the Well-head for breeding trout and salmon artificially. 

 I propose at the next fish-breeding season to fix up a trout- 

 hatching box at the Well-head, in such a manner that it will not 

 interfere with the women who come to fetch water. Salmon- 

 trout even now sometimes ascend the river Arun (page 8) as far 

 as Pulborough, and my friend Mr. Constable, of Arundel, breeds 

 many salmonidiB ; every year he rears up his young fish to a 

 certain size in the water tank at the top of the brewery. Some 

 of the Well-head water goes into the Arun. 



The water flowing from the Well-head runs into a water-cress 

 bed a better nursery for young trout and salmon I never saw. If 

 I do not breed salmonidse at Selborne next year I shall certainly, 

 with the permission of the local proprietors, turn down a number 

 of trout and salmon into this brook. Some of the salmon may pos- 

 sibly go down the Wey, and thus assist Mr. Ponder and myself 

 in our efforts to salmonize the Thames. 



At page 77 is to be seen the sketch of a very ancient 

 wheel for drawing up water. It is in the house of Mr. Loe, 

 shoemaker. The woodwork of the wheel presents a fine speci- 

 men of dry rot and the work of wood-borers combined. If not 

 looked to, this wheel may possibly cause an accident some day. 

 It ought to be pensioned off, and hung on the wall at the side 

 of the well. 



The Rev. A. 1ST. Campbell-Maclachlan, Vicar of Newton 

 Valence, adjacent to Selborne, kindly asked me to luncheon, 

 and showed me a note-book of Mr. Edmund White's of Newton 

 Valence, who was probably nephew to Gilbert White. It 

 begins thus : " A journal of weather and other occurrences 



