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becaufe it indicates a turbid ftate of the atmofphere ; for 
if the air were clear and dry, the horns fliould appear 
fliarp and pointed, that being then their natural lliape. 
But the bluntnefs of the horns is no fign of change after 
the dichotomy ; becaufe then the horns will appear blunt 
in all ftates of the air, the elliptic arc on the deficient fide 
of the Moon prefenting its concavity to the circular limb, 
and forming with it an obtufe angle. Again, the degree of 
the Moon’s light on the fourth day furnifiied aprognoftic. 
It ought then to be ftrong enough, if the air was clear,, 
for terreftrial objefts to calf a fliadowr^^. If their fliadows 
were not difcernible, it was a fign that the air was im- 
pure, and bad weather was to be expefled. But this 
prognoftic did not take place before the fourth day, be- 
caufe the light of the Moon was yet too weak for lira- 
dows to be formed in the purefi: ftate of the air. It did 
not take place after the fourth day, becaufe the enlight- 
ened part was then fo much encreafed, that fliadows 
w'oitld be formed in any ftate of the air, if the Moon was 
not adlually hidden by a cloud, or obfcured by fenfible 
mifts. The prognoftics furniflied by the new Moon ferv- 
ed only till the dichotomy, and thofe of the dichotomy 
till the full Moon, and fo on; not becaufe a new and 
diftindt influence was exerted in each new afpedl, but 
becaufe each new afpedt furniflied a new fet of figns, of a 
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