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or three days together. At noon it was com- 

 monly moft violent. But in the ordinary way, 

 the wind decreafed and increafccl as follow, : 

 At fix in the morning, a calm ; at (even, a verv 

 gentle weftern breeze, which grew flronger at 

 eight ; at eleven it was much ttrongcr; but at. 

 four in the afternoon, it is no flronger than k 

 was at eight o'clock ia the morning ; and thus 

 it goes on decreafing till it is quite a calm, jufl 

 before fun-fet. The winds this fpring blew ge- 

 nerally weft, as appears from the obfervations 

 at the end of this work. 



I was told, that it was a very certain prog- 

 noftic of bad weather, that when you fee clouds 

 in the horizon in the fouth-weft, about fun-fet- 

 ting, and when thofe clouds fink below the ho- 

 rizon, in an hour's time, it will rain the next 

 day, though all the forenoon be fair and clear. 

 But if fome clouds be feen in the fouth-weft, in 

 the horizon, at fun-fet, and they rife fome time 

 after, you may expert fair weather the next day, 



Mar. 2oth. AN old Swede prognoftic^ted a 

 change in the weather, becaufe it was calm to- 

 day i for when there has been wind for fome 

 days together, and a calm follows, they fay, rain 

 or fnow, or fome other change in the weather, 

 will happen. I was likewife told, that fome 

 people here were of that falfe opinion, that the 

 weather commonly alters on Friday*, fo that, in 

 cafe it had rained or blown hard all the week, 

 and a change was to happen, it would com- 

 monly fall on Friday. How far the former prog- 

 noflic has been true, appears from my own ob- 

 fervalions of the weather, to which I refer. 



C c 4 Mar. 



