^Ji, On the Signs fxh'ih'tied hy Anmals 



11. A freqii«it change of wind, accompanied with an agl- 

 Virion of the clouds, denotes a fndden ftorm. 



12. A want or too great a quantity of dew beinsT a mark 

 of a (trong evaporation, announces rain : the cafe is thct 

 fame with thick, white hoar-froll, which is only dew con* 

 gcalcd. 



13. If fait, marble, and glafs become moltt fome days 

 before rain ; if articles of wood, doors, and chells of drawers 

 fwell ; if the corns on the feet and tlie fears of old wounds 

 become painful; all thefe figns indicate that aqueous va- 

 pours are exhaled from the earth, and are no doubt direcled 

 by the elcftric matter, which diffufcs itfelf then in greater 

 abundance and penetrates every body. Hence it happens 

 that ftones become moift, that wood fwells, and fait be- 

 comes deliquefcent by the moifture. When the ftones after 

 being moifl; become dry, it is a fign of fine weather. 



14. On the other hand, when the weather inclines to rain, 

 the water is fecn to diminifli in vafes and fountains, becauff 

 the humidity- is then carried away by the evaporation of the 

 ele<ilric matter, 



15. It is certainly a furprifing phenomenon to fee the 

 earth,, after very long and very abundant rains, to be fome- 

 times almoft drv, the roads quite free from dirt, and the 

 hands to become arid and parched. This is a fign that the 

 rain has not altogether ccafcd, and denotes a continual efflux 

 of electric matter, which being renewed carries with it, in 



" the form of vapours, all the moifiurc that falls on the earth. 



16. There is fometimcs, however, a great deal of dirt even 

 ifter a verv moderate rain, which in that cafe is a fign of 

 fine weather, becaufe it indicates that evaporation has ccafed. 

 Dry ftones and moift earth announce fine weather; dry 

 earth and moift ftones announce rain. 



17. The winds which begin to blow in the day-time, are 

 much ftronger, and endure longer, than thofc which begin to 

 blow only in the night. 



18. Weather, whether good or bad, which takes place iji 



the 



