Hare Hunting, *^t 



(o after a hard rain Is over : and what Is more 

 common than to fee it defcend many days 

 together, to ]the terror of the Hufbandman, 

 in hay or corn harveft ; when the confe- 

 quence, at laft, is only a few drops, weighty 

 enough to defcend, though the air was in its 

 utmoft degree of gravity, and the mercury 

 at thirty-one inches. The vulgar folutions 

 of thefe difficulties are infufficient and puz- 

 zling, and veiy inconfifhent with avowed 

 principles : and, in my humbly opinion, 

 there will never appear a certain and fatis- 

 fadiory account of thefe perplexing phaenor- 

 mena, till fome fage Naturaliil fhall give 

 himfelf the trouble of a more full and com- 

 plete Diary, than as yet has been published ; 

 where, together with the degrees of the ba- 

 rometer, thermpmeter, and hygrometer, fhall 

 be taken in, in diilincS columns, the time 

 of the year, the length of the days, the age 

 of the moon, th^ fituation of the wind, 

 with, its degrees of roughnefs, the colours 

 of the clouds at fun rifing and fetting, the 

 manner of flying, chattering, or flocking of 

 birds, and divers other concurring tokens 

 ^nd fymptoms, which may be of great ufe, 

 F 4 in 



