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quotes J. Leofoldm Cyfat for an^Obfervation (if his Proverb be noei 
an Ironical one) contradidory to thefe Piefages ; which is, that 
Mons Pilati at Lucern betokens fair Weather when it puts on 
its Hood. The Proverb (hews fo much the Identity of the High 
Dutch and Ancient EnghJhj that it needs no Tranflation : 
WANN DER PILATUS HAT EIN HVT, . 
60 1ST 1>AS WETTER t'ElN VA'D GVT. 
The Rupture with a thiwidering Noiie of the Alpine Tee, and tlie 
Defcending of the Chnmoifes-f or Alpine Goats, into the lower 
Mountains, are aUb look’d upon as Forerunners of Storms. The' 2. f, 
PASCHOLER SEE prelages Rain by its rumbiing noife; and a 
fmallL ke, call’d is whirl’d about, and Twells before an 
approaching Storm ; and roars fo loud, as to be heard in the Op- 
ponte Mountains and V^alleys, to the diflaiice of iix Hours of 
which Phuinamenon\iQ gives us the Solution of Cardan and Morho- ' 
fiasy and laltly offers his own Thoughts. 
tx7L- he tells us, that there’s almoff continually a' // 9 p 
White Cloud hovering about an Ered Pillar, call’d DER SEJV- ’ ’ 
AE^V STEIT^, nc^r KVIPKELS. Thefe fort of WhiteCIouds 
the Mountaineers call TROCKHP^ and HEVWETfER^ NE- 
PEL [ ; affirming, that inch Clouds (from the Appearance where- 
or they forctel Fair Weather) arile conifantly from the Earth; 
vyhich he afterwards found tiye himfelf, in the Afceiirof SVebicra 
and Givers other Mountains. The Pillar above mentioned, he. 
fays, is not (as thole or Stonehenge, and divers other Places 
tlnoughout Britain iind Ireland) ei'cded by Mens Hands, but Na- 
tural ^ tho the height of Thirty Foot. This one would think fcarce 
Opinion he is (aid to maintain, of an Acomi- 
^ I 1 hings the rerreffrial Globe confifled of ar 
thepeliige; forif fo, weare left tofeek, whatMqivld fuch a Pil 
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long fince fullkieiidy exploded in the ingenious Examination of it. 
For in his EpifUe beforethe Tranflation.of Dr. modirard's Eflay, 
t Tiz.r Tfay~\veathcr Ciokds. 
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