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eight or nine days all fair^ and then to come 

 south again 



15th Rifle. If it turn again out of the south to 

 the north east with rain, and continues in the 

 north east two days without rain, and neither 

 turns south nor rains the third day, it is likely to 

 continue north-east two or three months. 



The wind will finish these turns in three weeks. 



16th Rule. After a northerly wind, for the 

 most of two months or more, and then coming 

 south, there are usually three or four fair days at 

 first, and then on the fourth or fifth day comes 

 rain, or else the wind turns north again and con- 

 thiues'dry. 



"17th Rule; If it returns to the south within a 

 day or two, without rain, and turns northward 

 with rain, and returns to the south in one or two 

 days, as before, two or three times together after 

 this sort, then it is likely to be in the south or 

 south-west two or three months together, as it 

 was in the north before. 



The winds will finish these turns in a fortnight. 



18th Rule, Fair weather for a week, with a 

 southerly wind,is likely to produce a great drought, 

 if there has been much rain out of the south be- 

 fore. The wind usually turns from the north to 

 south with a quiet wind without rain ; but returns 

 to the north with a strong wind and rain The 

 strongest winds are when it turns from south to 

 north by west. 



1 9th Rule. If you see a cloud rise against the 

 wind, or side wind, when that cloud comes up 

 to you, the wind will blow the same way the 

 cloud came. The same rule holds of a clear" 

 place, .when all the sky is equally thick, except 

 one clear edge. ^ 



When the north wind first clears the. air, 

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