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low it signifies wind rather than rain, and the like if they 

 appear so at its setting. 



5. If at sunrising or setting its rays appear contracted 

 or shortened, and do not shine out bright, though the wea 

 ther be not cloudy, it signifies rain rather than wind. 



6. If before sunrising there appear some rays as forerun 

 ners, it signifies both wind and rain. 



7. If the sun at its rising diffuses its rays through the 

 clouds, the middle of the sun remaining still under clouds, 

 it shall signify rain, especially if those beams break out 

 downwards, that the sun appears as it were with a beard. 

 But if the rays break forth out of the middle, or dispersed, 

 and its exterior body, or the out parts of it, be covered with 

 clouds, it foreshows great tempests both of wind and rain. 



8. If the sun, when it rises, be encompassed with a circle, 

 let wind be expected from that side on which the circle 

 opens. But if the circle fall off all at one time it will be 

 fair weather. 



9. If at the setting of the sun there appears a white 

 circle about it, it signifies some small storm the same night ; 

 if black or darkness, much wind the day following. 



10. If the clouds look red at sunrising they are prog 

 nostics of wind ; if at sunsetting, of a fair ensuing day. 



11. If about the rising of the sun clouds do gather them 

 selves about it, they foreshow rough storms that day ; but 

 if they be driven back from the rising towards the setting 

 of the sun, they signify fair weather. 



12. If at sunrising the clouds be dispersed from the sides 

 of the sun, some southward, and some northward, though 

 the sky be clear about the sun, it foreshows wind. 



13. If the sun goes down in a cloud, it foreshows rain the 

 next day ; but if it rains at sunsetting it is a token of wind 

 rather. But if the clouds seem to be as it were drawn 

 towards the sun, it signifies both wind and storms. 



14. If clouds at the rising of the sun seem not to encom 

 pass it, but to lie over it, as if they were about to eclipse it, 

 they foreshow the rising of winds on that side as the clouds 

 incline. And if they do this about noon, they signify both 

 wind and rain. 



15. If the clouds have encompassed the sun, the less 

 light they leave it, and the lesser the orb of the sun appears, 

 so much the more raging shall the tempest be ; but if there 

 appear a double or treble orb, as though there were two or 

 three suns, the tempest will be so much the more violent 

 for many days. 



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