On 21 September 1741,the young clergyman-to-be rose before dawn and went into the fields for a bit of sport.“I found the stubbles and clover-grounds matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully that the whole face of the country seemed, and as it were,covered with two or three setting-nets drawn one over another,” Gilbert White remembered, or many years later,in A Natural History of Selborne (1789).
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Source: theguardian.com