150 OF PROGNOSTICKS. CHAP. 4. 4. 



Rain, while she is more brazen, red, or copper 

 coloured before Wind. This corresponds with 

 the red in the clouds, before noticed as a sign 

 of Wind.* 



SECTION IV. 



Of several other Prognostic^,? of Rain, and of 

 the Return of fair Weather. 



MANY indications of atmospheric changes 

 have been noticed by different authors, which 

 I have not determined by my own observation 

 to be correct, such, for example, as the smell of 

 drains and stispools ; the excrescence of fungi 

 about the wicks of lamps and can'dles ; the 

 flaring and snapping of the flame; the soot 

 taking fire in sparks round the smoky outside 

 surface of a pot on the fire ; the wicks of can- 



* Hence the proverbial verse noticed elsewhere, 



Pallida Luna pluit, rubicunda flat, alba serenat. 

 The cumulostratus being a state of the clouds going on 

 to become nimbus, has been regarded as one of the rainy- 

 signs, and has given rise to the following adage : 

 " When Clouds appear like rocks and towers, 

 The earth's refreshed by frequent Showers." 



