130 OP PROGNOSTICKS. CHAP. 4. 1. 



scattered among numerous works of Natural 

 History and Science. And they are popular 

 among the lower classes of modern Europe. 

 Such of them as I have collected by occasional 

 conversation with Mariners, Shepherds, and 

 other persons who spend their lives chiefly out 

 of doors, and who are attentive in noticing these 

 prognosticks, as well as those which I have 

 noticed myself, have I collated with the written 

 accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, 

 and subjoined. 



SECTION I. 



Of Prognosticks of Atmospheric Changes, 

 deducible from the Motions of Animals. 



IT was long ago observed by the ancients 

 that, from the peculiar motions and habits of 

 many animals, the consequence, probably, of 

 their sensations of pain or of pleasure, a very 

 accurate judgment might be formed of the 

 approaching changes of the weather; neither 

 has this entirely escaped the notice of more 

 modern meteorologists. But I think they 

 have not bestowed that share of attention to 



