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OBSERVATIONS. 



P. 281. Mr. White says^ that no wheat-ears are taken 

 to the westward oi Houghton-bridgC;, on the river A run ; 

 it appears^ however, that is not the case. See the note 

 to Mrs. Charlotte Smith's Poems, 1807, p. 168. 



VOL. II. 



P. 26. As our Saxon ancestors called the month of 

 February ^ Sprout-Cale/ so the names of many other 

 months were equally significant ; viz. March, Stormy 

 month ; May, Trimilld, the cows then being milked 

 three times a day ; June, dig and weed month ; Sep- 

 tember, barley month, &c. 



P. 105. What Mr. White has remarked of the Jishes 

 of Japan thriving in our climate, is true also of the 

 plants ; the trees and shrubs brought from the Japonese 

 islands bearing our winters, and growing freely : as for 

 instance, that beautiful tree, the * Gingko,' now called 

 by Dr. Smith, the Salisbnria ; and the no less beautiful 

 and scarce ' Sophora Japonica,' the finest specimens of 

 which trees now in England, are probably in the curious 

 garden of John Orde, Esq. at Fulham. As I am on this 

 subject, I will mention that the garden belonging to the 

 palace of the Bishop of London at Fulham, the earliest 

 receptacle of scarce and foreign trees in this country, is 

 now almost worn out. Not above twelve of the original 



