428 METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
This clammy substance is very grateful to bees, who gather it 
with great assiduity, but it is injurious to the trees on which it 
happens to fall, by stopping the pores of the leaves. The greatest 
quantity falls in still close weather ; because winds disperse it, and 
copious dews dilute it, and prevent its ill effects. It falls mostly in 
hazy warm weather.— WHITE. 
MORNING CLOUDS. 
After a bright night and vast dew, the sky usually becomes cloudy 
by eleven or twelve o’clock in the forenoon, and clear again towards 
the decline of the day. The reason seems to be, that the dew, 
drawn up by evaporation, occasions the clouds; which, towards 
evening, being no longer rendered buoyant by the warmth of the 
sun, melt away, and fall down again in dews. If clouds are 
watched in a still warm evening, they will be seen to melt away 
and disappear.— WHITE. 
DRIPPING’ WEATHER: AFTER DROUGHT, 
No one that has not attended to such matters, and taken down 
remarks, can be aware how much ten days dripping weather will 
influence the growth of grass or corn after a severe dry season. 
This present summer, 1776, yielded a remarkable instance ; for, till 
the 30th of May the fields were burnt up and naked, and the barley 
not half out of the ground; but now, June roth, there is an agree- 
able prospect of plenty.—WHITE. 
AURORA BOREALIS. 
November 1, 1787. The N. aurora made a particular appear- 
ance, forming itself into a broad, red, fiery belt, which extended from 
E. to W. across the welkin: but the moon rising at about ten 
o’clock in unclouded majesty in the E. put an end to this grand 
but awful meteorous phenomenon.— WHITE. 
