158 BESTS ART OF ANGLING. 



SIGNS FROM VAPOURS. 



If a white mist in an evening or night is spread 

 over a meadow, wherein there is a river, it will 

 be drawn up by the next morning sun, and the 

 day will be bright afterwards. 



VV here there are high hills, and the mist which 

 hangs over the lower lands draw towards the hills 

 in a morning, and rolls up their sides till it covers 

 the top, there will be no rain. 



In some places, if the mist hangs upon the 

 hills, and drags along the woods, instead of over- 

 spreading the level grounds, in a morning, it will 

 turn to rain; therefore to judge rightly of the 

 appearances of a fog, it is in some degree ne- 

 cessary to be acquainted with the nature of the 

 country. 



SIGNS FROM THE CLOUDS. 



It is a very considerable symptom of fair wea- 

 ther, when the clouds decay, and dissolve them- 

 selves into air; but it is otherwise when they are 

 collected out of it. 



In nubem cogiter asr. VIRGIL. 



Against heavy rain, every cloud rises bigger 

 than the former, and all 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- 

 piously elevated, suspended in the sky by the heat, 

 and are highly charged with electrical fire ; small 

 fragments of flying clouds increase and assemble 

 together, till in a short space of time they cover 

 1 <i sky. 



