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the fame day of tlie Month of the year for egoifig. Hence 
I ^ we might in time examine upon fome grounds, How far 
the Politions of Planets, or other fymptoms or concomw 
tants^are Indicative of Weathers* Probably we may have 
forewarnings of Deaths or Famines, Epidemical difeafes, 
dcc^ and by their caufes be inftrufted for remedies or pre- 
vention. Certainly, by this method we may learn more 
in few years than at randomin all the days of our fhort 
lives* And, if fuch Calenders might be had from other 
forreigo and remote parts,as from Dant^k\ , Tangiety New 
England^ Bermudos^ Barbados^ Jamaica ^ Sec $ we (hould 
make a cloftr chafe to inveftigate the caufe of Heat and 
Cold, eoafting Rain and coafting Winds* And this dili* 
geoce would bi profitable if obferved from feveral parts 
of England, Sea- coafts, Midland, &g. 
Neither would it lels oblige pofterity, if he, who writes 
thQ London-Calendar ^ would record ac the end of every 
month thehigheft and loweft price of Wheats Rye^Barlcy, 
Pcakj BeanSj Oats, as they arc fold io fome chief Market 
in London ; and abftraift in one page the weekly Bills of 
Births, Buriak, of Males and Females. 
And the like Calenders are to be wilht from Pans^^ome, 
Venice^ Vienna^ MadridyfiaCQ Major Grant hath drawn us 
good loftrudlions, what manifold ufes may be made from 
fuch informations, &c. 
It cannot be expe^ledj that we fliould fo©nh^ve it re« 
giftred under every month^l^^ ^antityand Weight of l{ain 
that falls every month^ot'm great flaowers, -or long lafting 
rain.Aod though this would leem a dull work 5 yet it would 
Ggnifie fomething to (bme purpofes. 
In old HiftoriesI find, that Earthquakes, Inundations, 
Droughts, Famine, Peftilences, were each of them (in their 
feveral feafonsjand fometimes one clofe on the heels of the 
other,) afmoft univerfal over the known world i fome* 
times raging from place to place feveral years together. As 
- the Learned y^^4^<? relateth of a Peftilence, which in the 
days of Gi?//^/ and Volujianus began in jEihiopia^ and for 
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