the faMe day of the Month of the year foregoing. Hence 
we might ia time examine upon fome grounds, How far 
the Politions of planers, or other fymptoms or concomi< 
tantSjare Indicative of Weathers* Probably we may have 
forewarrjings of Deaths or Famines, Epidemical difeafes^ 
&Cv and by their caufes be inftrufted for remedies or pre- 
vention. Certainly^ by this method we may learn more 
in few years th*aa at randon;]i in all the days of our ftior^ 
lives* And, if fuch Calendars might be had from other 
forreigo and remote parts^as from Dam^icA, , Tangier^ New 
Englandj Bermudoiy Barbd^oT^ Jamaica ^ &C 5 %e fliould 
makea cloftr chafe to inveftigate the caufe of Heat and 
Cold, coaftingRain and coafting Winds* And this dili» 
geoce would be profitable if obferved from leveral parts 
ofEngladd, Sea-coafts, Midland, &g. 
Neitherwould it lefs oblige pofterity, if he, who writes 
tb^ London-Calendar^ would record ar the end of every 
ffidnth thehigheft and loweft price of Wheat, Rye^Barlcy, 
Peiicj Beans'j Oats, as they arc fold in fome chief Market 
iQ London; and abftraft in one page the wee{ly Bills of 
Births, Burials, of Males and Females. 
And the like Calenders are to be wiftit from Pam,I{Gme, 
Venice ^Vienna, M«^5?r/^,fince Major Grant h^th drawn us 
good loftruaionsjwhat manifold ufes may be made from 
luch informations, &c, c 
It cannot be expeded^ that we fliould foon have ic re* 
giftred under every iwonxh^the §luamity and Weight of J^ain 
that falls every month, or ia great fliowerS, or long lafting 
rain.And though this woiald feera a dull work5 yet it would 
figoifie fomething to fome purpofes. / 
In old HiftoriesI find, that; Earthquakes, Inuodatipos^ 
Droughts, Famine,Peftilences, were each of them (10 tmx 
fe veral feafons^and fometimes one clofe on the heels ot the 
other,) almoft univerfal over the known world; loaie^ 
times raging from place to place feveral years together. As 
the Learned i^^^^e relateth of a Peftiknce, which m^the 
davsofG^//^/ and VoManuf began in Mthiofm, 
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