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Sect. IX.] 



METEOROLOGY. 



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phases, with a vigilance proportioned to their actual or 

 expected intensity. Nothing in the way of prognostic 

 should be left unnoticed. The " ugly threatening appear- 



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elements — atm os - 



pheric, celestial, oceanic, and (if in port) terrestrial signs 

 of all kinds noted— such as the small white advancing 



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cloud expanding into an arch, or the little white spot {huirs- 



lurid sky —remark- 







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ahle red colour of clouds and of other objects— bands of 



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light, and distant advancing walls of darkness— portion 

 of cloud driven rapidly and irregularly— appearance of 

 ascending lightning— peculiar aspect of stars or planets at 

 uight, or of the sun or moon at rising or setting, and in 



what that peculiarity consists 



— whirlwinds, waterspouts (and 



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and peculiar veerings of wind with them, and alternations 

 of calm— smgular rises and lulls of wind and moaning or 

 roaring noises, and whether these are certainly/ in the 

 atmosphere — phosphorescent sea— flight of bn-d 



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of animals— unusual abundance of certain fish. 

 Meanwhile the movements of the barometer and the 

 direction and force of the wind should be watched with 

 unceasing vigilance. Hourly observations should be at 

 once commenced, and the intervals diminished as it be- 

 comes more and more certain that a storm is in progress. 

 When fairly established, they cannot bo read too fre- 

 quently, and every sudden rise or fall of the one, every 



shift of the other (as 



direction), should be noted 



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be read and noted to the minute, at every cntrj, made. 





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