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cher oes are necessary to determine the truth of this hy- 
pothes 
I re sak pretend to give the true solution of the phenome- 
non under consideration—I give that which seems to me 
present most plausible. I wish if any of your correspondents 
are possessed of facts, which refute the solution given, that 
they will give them publicity, since there seems to be a want 
ofinformation on this subject. 
Calculations of weather. 'The almanac maker is not the 
only man, who predicts what the weather will be at some fu- 
ture period. Almost every person has signs, which, in his 
view, are indicative of rain, or yea heat or cold. This 
all preceding ages. M. du Hamel, Kirwan, Bacon, and 
others, have laid down maxims for prognosticating the w 
ther. Their rules were the result of much labor, but have 
been little regarded. It seems, therefore, useless to attempt 
to give conclusions, which indicate a particular state of the 
weather in future, since the commonalty will abide by their 
ill-conceived maxims, until meteorological phenomena can be 
reduced to a system, ‘and find a place among the elementary 
‘books of science, that correct information may be diffused 
among all classes. That such an event will ever occur, will 
perhaps, be considered beyond the reach of probability. 
The attention that has been, and still is given to this subject, 
must in time result in some system of getieral truth. We, 
probably may not be see for use considerable time previous, 
to tell what particular air or Ory, but we 
may be able to discover. gee prec cursors a particular 
kind of weather. Such an event is not improbable. There 
is much truth in many signs, that the common class of people 
regard as indicating what the weather will be in future ; ; the 
philosopher should therefore select the true from the false 
and not treat the whole as nugatory—a relic of sup casi 
AVIS. 
Westfield, Dec. 1826. 
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