232 VARIETIES OF WEATHER. CHAP. 8. 



distribution of the clouds, and the appearance 

 of other Meteors ; the relation of which to 

 the state of the Thermometer, Barometer, and 

 Hygrometer, have not been duly noted ; that is 

 to say, there has been no discoverable peculiarity 

 in the state of those instruments at the time : 

 but the actions of De Luc's Aerial Electroscope 

 have been intermitted, or otherwise irregular 

 and inconstant. 



As the peculiarities of weather alluded to are 

 characterised by difference in the distribution 

 of the clouds in general, and of other Meteors, 

 and do not consist in the varieties of any one 

 cloud in particular ; and as the former part of 

 this work has related chiefly to the varieties of 

 individual modification, it is purposed to con- 

 sider briefly, in this place, the characteristic 

 circumstances of different kinds of weather. 

 In doing this, I have taken examples of some 

 of the most dissimilar varieties, though there 

 are kinds of weather partaking more or less of 

 each of them, so that the shades of difference 

 are innumerable, every day, perhaps, having 

 something different from all the rest in the 

 year : and if the different states of weather 

 - alluded to have any decided connexion with 

 the varieties of the animal functions, their 



