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19. When goats and fheep are more obftinate and more 

 defirous to crop their paftures, and feem to quit them with 

 rekiftance 5 and when the birds return flowly to their nefts, 

 rain may foon be expefted. 



Other Signs which announce Changes of the IVeather. 



I. If the flame of a lamp crackles or flares, it indicates 

 rainy weather. 



a. The cafe is the fame when the foot detaches itfelf from 

 the chimney and falls down. 



3. It is a fign of rain, alfo, when the foot colle6led around 

 pots or kettles takes fire in the form of fmall points like, 

 grains of millet ; becaufe this phenomenon denotes that the 

 air is cold and moift. 



4. If the coals feem hotter than ufual, or if the flame is 

 more agitated, though the weather be calm at the time, it 

 indicates wind, 



5. When the flame burns flieady, and proceeds fl;raight 

 upwards, it is a fign of fine weather. 



6. If the found of bells is heard at a great difl:ance, it M 

 a fign of wind, or of a change of weather. 



7. The hollow found of forefis ; the murmuring noife of 

 the waves of the fea ; their foaming, and green and black 

 colour, announce a Itorm. 



8. Good or bad fmclls, fecmlng as if it were condenfed, 

 are a fign of a change of weather; either becaufe exhalation* 

 arife and are difperfed in more abundance, which is a fign 

 of an increafe of eleftricity ; or becaufe the air does not dif- 

 pell or raifc thefe exhalations, which indicates that the con- 

 ftitution of the atmofphere is motionlefs, light, and void of 

 clafticity. 



9. When the fpiders webs and the leaves of the trees are 

 agitated without any fenfibic wind, it is a fign of wind, and 

 perhaps of rain ; becaufe it denotes that ftrong and pene- 

 trating exhalations arife from the earth. 



10. Thefc figns are lefs equivocal when the dry leaves and 

 chaff are agitattd in a vortex, and raifed into the air. 



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