l6o BEST'S ART OF ANG-LING. 



succeed it; but if .after such a day there is no 

 dew upon the ground, and no wind stining, it is 

 a sign that the vapours go upwards, and that 

 there will be an accumulation above, which must 

 terminate in rain. 



SIGN'S FROM THE FACE OF THE SKY. 



If those vapours which the heat of the day 

 raises from the earth, are precipitated by the cold 

 air of the night, then the sky is clear in the 

 morning; but if this does not happen, and they 

 remain still in the a'rr, the light of the morning 

 will be coloured as it was in the evening, and 

 rain will be the consequence. 



There is commonly either a strong dew, or a 

 mist over the ground, between a red evening and 

 a grey morning.; but if a red morning succeeds, 

 there is no dew. 



It is a bad symptom when a lowering redness 

 is spread too far upwards from the horizon, either 

 in the morning or in the evening ; it is succeeded 

 either by rain or wind, and frequently both. 



When such a fiery redness, together with a 

 raggedncss 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 ob- 

 served all over the sky. When the sky, in a 

 rainy season, is tinged with a sea-green colour, 

 near, the horizon, when it ought to be blue, the 

 rain wiil continue and increase; if it is of a 

 deep dead blue, it is abundantly loaded with va- 

 pours/and the weather will be showery. 



