CHAP. 4. 5. OF PROGNOSTICKS. 151 



dies not being easily lighted, and many others 

 of this sort. Wind has been indicated by 

 candles burning unequally, or by coals casting 

 off more ashes than usual. 



Pain felt in limbs formerly broken, or in 

 other injured parts of the body, often forebodes 

 Rain. On Wednesday, the 23d of June, 1813, 

 the extensor tendon of my forefinger was 

 divided by accident, and though by means of a 

 new substance interposed between the divided 

 ends of the tendon, its functions were restored, 

 and the wound completely healed, yet I always 

 feel an uneasy sensation in it before rainy 

 weather, very similar to that which I experience 

 after having much exerted it. 



SECTION V. 



Of Indications of the Return of Fair Weather. 



THE absence of those circumstances which 

 forebode or accompany foul weather may 

 generally be considered as indicating a return 

 of fair. So Virgil mentions the clear and bright 

 appearance of the Moon and Stars, after they 

 have long been hazy and confused, to indicate 



