But if his cheeks are swoln with livid blue,
He bodes wet weather by his wat'ry hue;
If dusky spots are varied on his brow,
And streaked with red, a troubled colour shew,
That sullen mixture shall at once declare
Winds, rain, and storms, and elemental war.

But if with purple rays he brings the light,
And a pure heav'n resign to quiet night;
No rising winds, or falling storms are nigh.

MORE PROGNOSTICS TAKEN FROM THE CLOUDS.

3d Rule. Clouds large, like rocks, great showers.

4th Rule. If small clouds increase, much rain. 5th Rule. If large clouds decrease, fair wea ther.

6th Rule. In summer or harvest, when the wind has been south two or three days, and it grows very hot, and you see clouds rise with great white tops, like towers, as if one were on the top of another, and joined together with black on the nether side, there will be thunder and rain suddenly

7th Kule. If two such clouds rise, one on either hand, it is time to make haste to shelter.

Mr. Worlidge gives us the following rules ;

"In a fair day, if the sky seems to be dappled with white clouds, (which is usually termed a mackarel sky) it generally predicts rain."

This is confirmed by a very ingenious gentleman, who has constantly observed, that "in dry weather, so soon as clouds appear at a great

height, striped like the feathers in the breast of a hawk, rain may be expected in a day or so."

"In a clear evening, certain small black clouds appearing, are undoubted signs of rain to follow: or, if black or blue clouds appear near the sun, at any time of the day, or near the moon by night, rain usually follows."

If small waterish clouds appear on the tops of hills, rain follows."

"If clouds grow, or appear suddenly, the air otherwise free from clouds, it denotes tempests at hand, especially if they appear to the south or west."

If many clouds, like fleeces of wool, are scattered from the east, they foretel rain within three days.

When clouds settle upon the tops of mountains, they indicate hard weather.

When the tops of mountains are clear, it is a sign of fair weather.

MORE PROGNOSTICS TAKEN FROM MIST.

8th Rule. If mists rise in low grounds and soon vanish, fair weather.

9th Rule. If it rises up to the hill tops, rain in a day or two.

10th Rule. A general mist before the sun rises, near the full moon, fair weather.

MORE PROGNOSTICS TAKEN FROM RAIN.

11th Rule. Sudden rains never last long: but when the air grows thick by degrees, and the sun, moon, and stairs, shine dimmer and dimmer, it is likely to rain six hours usually.

12th Rule. If it begins to rain from the south, with a high wind, for two or three hours, and the

wind falls, but the rain continues, it is likely to rain twelve hours or more; and does usually rain till a strong north wind clears the air: these long rains seldom hold above twelve hours, or happen above once a-year. "In an inland country," says Mr. Mills," it may not rain for more than twelve hours successively; but I doubt this will not hold as a general rule, either of its duration or frequency, in all places; for near the sea rains happen often which last a whole day.

13th Rule. If it begins to rain an hour or two before sun-rising, it is likely to be fair before noon, and to continue so that day; but if the rain begins an hour or two after sun-rising, it is likely to rain all that day, except the rainbow be seen before it rains.

Mr. Worlidge's signs of rain are the foilowing.

"The audibility of sound are certain prognostics of the temper of the air in a still evening; for if the air is replete with moisture over us, it depresses sounds, so that they become audible to a greater distance than when the air is free from such moisture and vapours. From whence you may conclude, that in such nights, or other times, when you hear the sound of bells, noise. of water, beasts, birds, or any other sounds or noises, more plainly than at other times, the air is inclinable to rain, which commonly succeeds.

"If the earth, or any moist or fenny places, yield any extraordinary scents or smells, it presages rain

"If dews lie long in the morning on the grass, &c. it signifies fair weather; but if they rise or

vanish suddenly, and early in the morning, it presages rain.

"There is a small bird, of the size and nearly the shape of a marten, that at certain times flies very near the water, which is a most sure prognostic of tempestuous weather; never appearing but against such weather, as hath been constantly observed by the boatmen on the Severn and the channel, between the Isle of Wight and the main land.

"Ducks and geese picking their wings, washing themselves much, or cackling much, denotes rain.

"If after rain comes a cold wind, there will be more rain."

The nightly virgin, whilst her wheel she plies,
Foresees the storm impending in the skies,

When sparkling lamps their splutt'ring light advance,
And in their sockets oily bubbles dance.

DRYDEN'S VIRGIL.

MORE PROGNOSTICS FROM THE WIND.

14th Rule. When the wind turns to northeast, and it continues there two days without rain, and does not turn south the third day, nor rain the third day, it is likely to continue northeast for eight or nine days all fair, and then to come south again.

15th Rule. If it turn again out of the south to the north-east with rain, and continues in the north-east two days without rain, and neither turns south, nor rains the third day, it is likely to continue north-east two or three months.

The wind will finish these turns in three weeks.

16th Rule. After a northerly wind, for the most part of two months or more, and then coming south, there are usually three or four fair. days at first, and then on the fourth or fifth day comes rain, or else the wind turns north again, and continues dry.

17th Rule. If it returns to the south within a day or two, without rain, and turns northward with rain, and returns to the south in one or two days, as before, two or three times together after this sort, then it is likely to be in the south or south-west two or three months together, as it was in the north before.

The winds will finish these turns in a fortnight.

18th Rule. Fair weather for a week, with a southerly wind, is likely to produce a great drought, if there has been much rain out of the south before. The wind usually turns from the north to south with a quiet wind without rain, but returns to the north with a strong wind and rain. The strongest winds are when it turns from south to north by west.

19th Rule. If you see a cloud rise against the wind, or side wind, when that cloud comes up to you, the wind will blow the same way the cloud came. The same rule holds of a clear place, when all the sky is equally thick, except one clear edge.

When the north wind first clears the air, which is usually once a week, be sure of a fair day or

two.

The following are the observations of Lord Bacon:

When the wind changes conformable to the motion of the sun, that is, from east to south, from south to west, &c. it seldom goes back, or