140 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1734 



the N". field hill, both of which have had much labour 

 bestowed on them, and are now very safe. This is the first 

 carriage that ever came in this way." 



In December of this year (1784) the great frost, 

 a record of which Gilbert White wrote,^ occurred, 

 while his brother Thomas, who was still at Selborne, 

 described it in the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' 1785, 

 vol. liii. pp. 170, 171. 



* Vide *The Natural History of Selborne,' Letter LXIII. to Barrington. 



