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Tv/elve to Five or Six in the Evening, that part of the Atmolphere 
which pertains to is the more expanded, and fo driven 
to iVjiLLENSTAD direc!Ily in the fame manner as the Courfe of 
the Eaftern Wind has been explain’d. And as for the return of 
the Eallern Wind at Seven or fomewhat later in the Evening, -lie 
thence infers, that the Portion of the Air v/hich was expanded fay 
the Heat of the Sun, and driven towards is by 
that time returned to its narrow fpace,’ and forced, as ’twere by 
its weight, towards wESEN. This Account Dr.- gives 
of the Wind, puts me in mind of his Obfervation on the Air of 
^ this Mountainous Trad. From repeated Obfervations ffays he) on 
//. the Height of the Adcremj in the Barometer^ J gather that the Ela~ 
fiicity of the Air is much greater in theft Alpine Countries^ than with 
ZURICEI, which I attribute to its greater Parity the Sxg la- 
nation whereof I had rather hear from others of better Judgment and 
Experience^ than pretend to it my felf, by obtruding my own Con- 
jecture. . 
I mull not here omit thofe Obfervations, he tells us, the Alpine 
People make, concerning the Signs of Fair Weather. Thofe of 
ENG ELBERG expedRain, when they fee the Top of STnL- 
LICSTGCK cover’d with Clouds ; or when they fee grey Clouds 
appear Northward at the Entry of the Valley. In other Places of 
the AlpSy ail extraordinary Noife and Murmuring of the Torrents 
it.i. f. 17. is a Token of Rain, At FiUfur among the Grifons they have a 
Proverb of the Weather, which I Tranfcribe, becaufe the only 
Words I have feen in that Ancient Dialed of the Italians^ 
Cura cl) il f itz. da Stiervi fo chiapi ; 
tafeha dtr. U fotjeh^ & piglia ilrajti : 
]VHEJ^ STERWISKNOLL A CAP DOT A 
. MAKT; 
AJVJT mrii srriiT , . a.nd fetch the 
KAIif. 
So at near the Fountain of the Rhincj a Cloud, great or 
j'mall, on Cucarnil Mountain prefages Showers of Rain that E- 
- veningornexc Morning, kt SIL m the FJPPE.R ENG A^DIN 
is a Lake about a Mile in length, and half a Mile broad, on which 
vvlR'never there are Clouds, Tis an Infallible Sign of Rain , but he 
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