PROCiNOSTICS CONTINUED. 1 BQ 



cuckoos, if they come early, shew a hot summer 

 to follow. 



A serene autumn denotes a whidy winter; a 

 ■windy winter a rainy spring; a rainy spring, a 

 S(n*ene summer; a serene summer, a windy au- 

 tumn; so that the air, on a halance, is seldom 

 debtor to itself; nor do the seasons succeed each 

 other in the same tenor for two years together. 



Mr. Worlidge remarks, that ii'at the beginning 

 of the winter the south-wind blow, and then the 

 north, it is likely to be a cold winter ; but if the 

 north-wind first blow, and then the south it will 

 be a warm and mild winter. 



When there are but few nuts, cold and wet 

 harvest generally follow; but when there is agreat 

 shew of them, hot, heavy, and dry harvests suc- 

 ceed. 



If the oak bears much mast, it foreshews a 

 long and hard winter. The same has been ob- 

 served of hips and haws. 



If broom is full of flowers, it usually signities 

 plenty. 



Mark well the flow'ring alnionils in the \vH)od ; 

 If" od'rous blooms the bearing branches loud, 

 The glebe will answer to the Sylvan reign, 

 Great heats will follow, and large crops of grain. 

 But if a wood of leaves o'ershade the tree, 

 Such and so barren will the harvest be. 

 In vain the hind shall vex the threshing floor, 

 For empty chafi" and straw will be thy store. 



drvden's viucil. 



In the preface to this new edition, Ihave taken 

 notice, that I liave not revised any impression 

 of this treatise since the Ji/t/i, and at the coticlu- 

 sion of that have observed, '' that throuL^h the 

 umertainty of life I might not do so again" 

 However throuojh the blessings of the Ah- 



/ 



