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the four cardinal points of the zodiac. Their intervals, 

 therefore, are as 4 to 5, 8 to 9, &c. or as the intervals of 

 the paffage of the apfides through the four cardinal points of 

 the zodiac. Thus the year 1777 was, in general, a bad year; 

 and in that year the apfides of the moon were in the equi- 

 noctial figns ; and it is probable that the years in which the 

 apfides fall in the figns Taurus, Leo, Virgo and Aquarius, will 

 be good and moderate years, as the year 1776 really was ; 

 and in that year the apfides of the moon were in Taurus and 

 Virgo. 



Every eighteenth year muft be fimilar. We, however, 

 can not depend upon a return altogether the fame, on ac- 

 count of the three different revolutions of the moon ; and 

 therefore it mav happen, that the epoch of this extraordinary 

 year may be retarded a year or perhaps two. Though ap- 

 proximations only are here given, this does not prevent their 

 being ufeful to farmers, if they only pay attention to circum- 

 ftances. Befides, various exceptions muft be made for dif- 

 ferent parts of the earth ; and it is difficult to determine 

 thefe beforehand, as what regards this fyftemis applicable to 

 the whole globe; but when the rtfultof the fvftem has been 

 improved by local obfervations, the conjectures for each 

 country will be attended with more certainty. 



The fifty-fourth year muft have a greater fimilarity to the 

 firft than to all die reft ; becaufe, at this period, the fitua- 

 tions of the moon, in regard to the fun and the earth, are 

 again found in the fame points. 



The quantity of the rain which falls in nine fucceffive 

 years is almoft equal to that which falls in the next follow- 

 ing nine. But this is not the cafe when we compare in like 

 manner the quantity of rain which falls in fix, eight or ten 

 years. 



Effects of the Moon on the Barometer. 



The variations of the barometer are fo intimately connected 

 with changes of the weather, that there is reafon to fuppofe 

 that the moon has fome influence on the flatc ofthatinflru- 



incnt. 



