174 OP PROGNOSTICKS. CHAP. 4. 8. 



the wind will blow the same way that the cloud 

 came. And the same rule holds of a clear place, 

 when all the sky is equally thick, except one 

 clear edge. 



Sudden rains never last long : but when the 

 air grows thick by degrees, and the sun, moon, 

 and stars shine dimmer and dimmer, then it is 

 likely to rain six hours usually. 



If it begin to rain from the South, with a 

 high wind for two or three hours, and the wind 

 falls, but the rain continues, it is likely to rain 

 twelve hours or more, and does usually rain till 

 a strong North wind clears the air. These long 

 rains seldom hold above twelve hours, or happen 

 above once a year. 



If it begin to rain an hour or two before sun 

 rising, it is likely to be fair before noon, and 

 so continue that day : but if the rain begin an 

 hour or two after sun rising, it is likely to rain 

 all that day, except the rainbow be seen before 

 it rains. 



If the last eighteen days of February and 

 ten days of March be for the most part rainy, 

 then the spring and summer quarters will pro- 

 bably be so too: and I never knew a great 

 drought but it entered in that season. 



If the latter end of October and beginning 



