424 LUNAR INFLUENCES. 



logical quantities have been accurately determined, and that only in 

 a few localities, we must be fully sensible that the noble efforts now 

 being made must be extended and amplified indefinitely to meet the 

 wants of coming generations. 



The following paper is intended simply to show the connection (if 

 any) between lunar phases and positions and the various phenomena 

 of the weather in this locality during the space of forty-one years, 

 deducting trifling exceptions noted in their places. This period, 

 though a considerable item in the life of man, is but a comparative 

 trifle in that of a science, but still is worthy of record, especially 

 since no attempt is made to ground any theory upon it, or to draw 

 general conclusions from isolated and perhaps exceptional cases. A 

 careful record of the conditions of the weather has been kept, and it 

 is divided into two distinct classes, termed (f) and (s), fine and stormy, 

 which may be liable to some misunderstanding ; but all things 

 considered, seems the best that can be adopted. F, then, denotes a 

 day entirely free from all atmospheric disturbances; e. g., rain, snow, 

 hail, thunder and lightning, gales, &c. S, all others. So that / does 

 not represent necessarily what in common parlance is called fine, nor 

 would s be strictly speaking " stormy," but may be somewhat inter- 

 changed. This is done to avoid the ambiguity of the term and the 

 bias every one is under to support a favourite theory. The only 

 objection is, that by this method we scarcely give the moon her due, 

 for many days would be called s, which in common acceptation might 

 be called yj which would lead to a further element (v), or variable ; 

 thus rendering the matter too compKcated. 

 The days noted are those 



Before ^ -vr v Before ^ -r, • 



r New \ \ xerigee. 



r j>ew ^ 

 On >-„ 11 >Moon. On 



After J ^ After j ^ ^ 



Thus forming combinations, taken three and three together, of/, /, f; 



Thus, f,f,f, would represent a period of the three days before 

 mentioned, entirely consisting of fine weather ; and s, s, s, entirely 

 of storm, or variable. To get the number of days in their several 

 classes for the entire period, those are reckoned according to the 

 initial letter, and the sum taken, and thus a comparison is made of 

 the number of fine and stormy days at the several epochs of the 

 new and full moons, and Perigee and Apogee. 



