SIGNS FROM THE DEW. 



When the .clouds are fopited like tieecvs, deep* 



and dense towards the middle, and very white 

 at the edges, with the sky very bright and blue 

 about them, they are of a fiosty coldness, and 

 \viil 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 

 collected, is irregularly spread and scattered by 

 contrary winds above; the consequence of which 

 ivill soon be a wind below, and probably a rain 

 with it. 



If the clouds, as they come forward, sceoi 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, and other's Noah's Ark, 

 because they sail over the other clouds, like the 

 ark upon the waten>, rain is not tar off, and it will 

 probably be lasting. 



Their is no surer sign of rain than two different 

 currents of clouds, especially if the undermost 

 flies fast before the wind; and if two such cur- 

 rents appear in the hot weather of the summer, 

 they shew that a thunder storm is gathering : but 

 the preparation which precedes a storm of thun- 

 der, is so generally understood, that it is need- 

 less to insist upon it minutely. 



SIGNS FROM THE DEW, 



If the dew lies plentifully upon the grass after 

 a fair day, another fair day may be expected to 



