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often indicate frosty and clear weather, as does 

 the lodgment of the moisture on the windows ; 

 for it demonstrates a cold and frosty atmosphere 

 abroad.* To the above signs of atmospheric 

 changes, many others might be added ; but to 

 enumerate all which different authors have 

 mentioned, would swell too much this chapter, 

 and I must refer the reader, for further 

 information on this subject, to the chapter 

 on superstitions originating in meteorological 

 phaenomena, wherein I have collected and in- 

 serted more of these trite and ancient sayings 

 about the prognosticks of the weather. 



SECTION VI. 



Of the Prognosticks of Seasons.^ 



THE constant desire to know what is about 

 to happen, which our natural curiosity and the 



* See the Shepherd ofBanbury's Calendar, London, 1748. 



Lord Bacon has adduced many conjectures why Herons 

 flying high forebode Wind, and Kites doing the same forebode 

 fair weather. 



t In commemoration of the Seasons and keeping journals, 

 it becomes necessary to use the names of months and days. 



