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This table exhibits a comparifon of the a6lual changes 
of the weather from fair to foul, with the afpedts of the 
Moon ; and needs no other explanation than an inter- 
pretation of the chara61ers in the laid column. 
— froft d Any one of thefe marks placed over a 
4- thaw number lignifies, that the weather indicated 
G fair by that mark continued from the day of the 
-V rainy month denoted by the number underneath 
— ftormy to the day denoted by the next following 
fnow J number, bearing fome other mark over it^ 
Thus, in the month of July, rainy weather fet in on the 
fifth, and lafted to the fifteenth; from the 15th to the 
20th it was fine; when it changed again, and continued 
rainy till the 2 2d; then it was fine to the 27th, and 
rainy again till the 31ft. 
Such tables of comparifon, made yearly for a fuccef- 
fion of years, would in the end decide with certainty for 
or againfi: the popular perfuafion of the Moon’s influence 
upon the changes of our weather ; which hath fome how 
or other gained credit even among the learned, without 
that ftridl empiric examination, which a notion in itfelf 
fo improbable, fo deftitute of all foundation in phyfical 
theory, lb little fupported by any plaufible analogy, 
ought to undergo. The vulgar dodtrine about this in* 
fluence is, that it is exer-ted at the fyzygies and quadra* 
tures, and for three days before and after each of thofe 
epochs. There are 24 days therefore in each fynodic 
month, over which the Moon at this rate is fuppofed to 
preside; and as the whol6 cpnfifls but of 29 days i2| 
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