Gilbert White

Name: The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton
ISBN: 9781346152387

Scientist

1720-07-18

Books by Gilbert White

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton

By the REV. Gilbert White, M.a
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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
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