This experiment may easily be tryed again. As Sir
Walter Raleigh saies, there are stranger things to be seen in the
world than are between London and Stanes. [This is the "story" which
Ray, in the letter printed in page 8, justly describes as, "without
doubt, a fable." - J. B.]
In Sir James Long's parke at Draycot Cerne are some wheat-eares; and
on come warrens and downes, but not in great plenty. Sussex doth most
abound with these. It is a great delicacie, and they are little lumps
of fatt.
On Salisbury plaines, especially about Stonehenge, are bustards. They
are also in the fields above Lavington: they doe not often come to
Chalke. (Many about Newmarket, and sometimes cranes. J. EVELYN.) [In
the "Penny Cyclopaedia" are many interesting particulars of the
bustard, and in Hoare's "Ancient Wiltshire, vol. i. p. 94, there is an
account of two of these birds which were seen near Warminster in the
summer of 1801; since when the bustard has not been seen in the
county.-J. B.]
On Salisbury plaines are gray crowes, as at Royston. [These are now
met with on the Marlborough downs.- J. B.]
" Like Royston crowes, where, as a man may say,
Are friars of both the orders, black and gray."
- J. CLEVELAND'S POEMS.
'Tis certain that the rookes of the Inner Temple did not build their
nests in the garden to breed in the spring before the plague, 1665;
but in the spring following they did.
Feasants were brought Into Europe from about the Caspian sea.
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