SIGNS FROM THE SUN, &C. 



When such a fiery redness, together with a 

 raggedness of the clouds, extends towards the 

 zenith in an evening, the wind will be high from 

 the west or south-west, attended with rain, some- 

 times with a flood : before the late dreadful hur- 

 ricane of 1780, at Barbadoes and the other West- 

 India islands, a redness like fire was observed all 

 over the sky. When the sky, in a rainy season, 

 is tinged with sea-green colour, near the horizon, 

 when it ought to be blue, the rain will continue 

 and increase ; if it is of a deep dead blue, it is 

 abundantly loaded with vapours, and the weather 

 will be showery. 



SIGXS FROM THE SUN, MOON, AN"D STARS. 



When there is a haziness aloft in the air, so 

 that the sun's light fades by degrees, and his orb 

 looks whitish and ill-defined, it is one of the most 

 certain signs of rain. 



If the moon and stars grow dim in the night, 

 with the like haziness in the air, and a ring or 

 halo appears round the moon, rain will be the 

 consequence. 



If the rays of the sun, breaking through the 

 clouds, are visible in the air, and appear like 

 those horns of irradiation which painters usually 

 place upon the head of Moses, the air is sensibly 

 filled with vapours, which reflect the rays to 

 the sight, and these vapours will soon produce 

 rain. 



If the sun appears white at his setting, or 

 shorn of his rays, or goes down into a bank of 

 clouds, which lie in the horizon ; all these are 

 signs of approaching or continuing bad wea- 

 ther. 

 If -the moon looks pale and dim, we are to e* 



