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in uubem cogiteraer. VIRQIL.. 



Aeainst heavy rain, every cloud rises bigger 

 than the former, and ail the clouds are in a grow- 

 ing state. 



This is most remarkable on the approach of a 

 thunder storm, after the vapours have been co- 

 pious y elevated, suspended in the sky by the 

 heat, and are highly charged vvi'h electrical fire; 

 small fragments of fly i tig clouds increase and 

 assemble together, till in a short space of time 

 they cover the sky. 



When the clouds are formed like fleeces, deep, 

 and dense toward the middle, and very white at 

 the edges, with the sky very bright and blue 

 about them, they are of a frosty coldness, and 

 will soon fall either in hail, snow, or in hasty 

 showers of rain. 



If clouds are seen to breed high in the air, in 

 thin white trains, like locks of wool, or the tails 

 of horses, they shew that the vapour as it is col- 

 lected, is irregularly spread and scattered by 

 contrary winds above; the consequence of which 

 will soon LJ a wind below, and probably a rain 

 with it. 



if the clouds, as they come forward, seem to 

 diverge from a point in the horizon, a wind may 

 be expected from that quarter or the opposite. 



When a general cloudiness covers the sky 

 above, and there are small black fragments of 

 clouds, like smoke, flying underneath, which 

 some call messengers, others Noah's Ark, be- 

 cause they sail over the other clouds, like the 

 ark upon the waters, raiu irf not far off, and it 

 will probably be lasting. 



