FROM BEST'S "ANGLERS' GUIDE." 



Prognostics of the Weather, independent of the 

 Barometer, extracted from the 

 best Authorities. 



I S it is highly necessary that an Angler should 

 be able to form a judgment of the change of 

 weather, on which his sport entirely depends, 

 if he observes the following signs, it will soon 

 become familiar to him. 



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's sun, and the day will be bright afterwards. 



Where 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 overspreading 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 necessary 

 to be acquainted with the nature of the country. 



Signs from the Clouds. 

 IT is a very considerable symptom of fair weather when 



