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at eight o'clock in the morning ; and thus 

 It goes on decreafing till it is quite a calm, 

 juft before fun-fet. The winds this fpring 

 blew generally weft, as appears from the ob- 

 fervations at the end of this volume. 



I WAS told> that it was a very certain 

 prognoftic of bad weather, that when you 

 lee clouds in the horizon in the fouth-weft, 

 about fun-fetting, and when thofe clouds 

 fink below the horizon, in an hour's time, it 

 will rain the next day, though all the fore- 

 noon 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 expect fair weather the next day. 



March the 2Oth. AN old Swede prog- 

 nofticated a change in the weather, becaufe 

 it was calm to-day ; 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 com- 

 monly alters on Friday ; fo that, in cafe it 

 had rained or blown hard all the week, and 

 a change was to happen, it would common- 

 ly fall on Friday. How far the former 

 prognoftic has been true, appears from my 

 own obfervations of the weather, to which I 

 f?efer. 



G 4 March 



