beeches at the top of the hill ; but not those on the 

 hanger this year. We shall lose the beautiful fringe 

 that graces the outline of our prospect that way : but 

 shall gain 60 feet of Horizon. Jupiter wests so fast 

 that at sun-set he is not much above these trees. 

 Snow covers the ground. 



To Thomas Barker, Esq. 



Selborne, Jan: ist: 1791. 



Dear Sir, 



As the year 1790 is just at an end, I send you 

 the rain of that period, which, I trust, has been regu- 

 larly measured. Nov. and Dec. as 

 you see, were very wet, with many 

 storms, that in various places had oc- 

 casioned much damage. The fall of 

 rain from Nov. 19 to the 22, inclusive, 

 was prodigious ! The thunder storm 

 on Dec. 23 in the morning before day 

 was very aweful : but, I thank God, it 

 did not do us any the least harm. 

 Two millers, in a wind-mill on the 

 Sussex downs near Good-wood, were 



struck dead by lio^htningf that morn- 



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 ing ; and part of the gibbet on Hind- 

 head, on which two murderers were suspended, was 

 beaten down. 1 am not sure that I was awaked 



