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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28284	The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. Brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England.; Gentili, Robert, 1590-1654?	1671 (1671)	Wing B306; ESTC R31268	123,856	142

39. Bellowing Thunders which do as it were pass along presage winds and those which make a sharp and unequal noise presage storms both of wind and rain 40. When it lightens in a clear sky winds are at hand and rain from that part where it lightens But if it lightens in diverse parts there will follow cruel and horrid tempests 41. If it lightens in the cold quarters of the Heavens namely the East and North Hail will follow if in the warmer namely South and West we shall have rain and a warm sky 42. Great heats after the Summer Soistice and commonly with Thunder and Lightning and if those come not there will be wind and rain for many days 43. The Globe of Flame which the Ancient called Castor which is seen by Mariners and Seafaring men at Sea if there be but one presages a cruel tempest Castor is the dead brother and much more if it stick not close to the Mast but dances up and down But if they be twins and Pollux the living brother be present and that when the tempest is high it is a good presage But if there be three namely if Helen the Plague of all things come in it will be a more cruel tempest so that one seems to shew the indigested matter of the storm Two a digested and ripe matter Three or more an abundance that will hardly be dispersed 44. If we see the Clouds drive very fast when it is a clear sky we must look for winds from that way from which the Clouds are driven But if they wheel and tumble up together when the Sun drawes near to that part in which they are tumbled up together they will begin to scatter and sever and if they part most towards the North it betokens wind if towards the South rain 45. If at Sun-setting there arise black and dark Clouds they presage rain If against the Sun namely in the East the same night if near the Sun in the West the next day with winds 46. The clearing of a Cloudy sky if it begins against the wind which then blows signifies clear fair weather with the wind it betokens nothing but the thing remains uncertain 47. There are sometimes seen several as it were Chambers or joined Stories of Clouds one above the other so as Gilbertus affirms he hath seen five of them together and always the blackest are lowermost though sometimes it appears otherwise because the whitest do more allure the sight A double Conjunction of stories if it be thick shews approaching rain especially if the lower Cloud seem as it were big with Child more Conjunctions presage continuance of rain 48. If Clouds spread abroad like Fleeces of wool here and there they foreshew Tempests but if they lie one a top of another like skales or tiles they presage drought and clear weather 49. Feathered Clouds like to the boughs of a Palm tree or the flowers of a Rainbow are Prognosticks of present rain or immediately to follow 50. When Hills and Hillocks looks as though they wore Caps by reason of the Clouds lying upon them and encompassing them it presages imminent Tempests 51. Amber or Gold Colour Clouds before Sun-setting that have as it were gilded Helms or borders after the Sun begins to be quite down foreshew fair clear weather 52. Grayish and as it were Clay-coloured Clouds shew that rain with wind are drawing on 53. Some petty Cloud shewing it self suddenly having not been seen before and all the skie clear about it especially if it be in the West and about Noon shews there is a storm a comming 54. Clouds and Mists ascending and going upward presage rain and that this be done suddenly so that they be as it were sucked up they presage rain but if they fall and reside in the Valleys they presage fair weather 55. A big Cloud growing white which the Ancients called a white Tempest in Summer is a fore-runner of small hail like Comfits in Winter snow 56. A fair and clear Autumn presages a windy winter a windy winter a rainy spring a rainy spring a clear summer a clear summer a windy Autumn So that the year as the Proverb goes is seldom its own debtor and the same order of seasons will scarce happen two years together Fires upon the Hearth when they look paler than they are accustomed and make a murmuring noise within themselves do presage tempests And if the flame rises bending and turning it signifies wind chiefly and when the snuffs of Lamps and Candles grow like Mushromes with broad heads it is a sign of rainy weather 58. Coals shining bright and sparkling over-much signifie wind 59. When the superficies of the Sea is calm and smooth in the Harbour and yet murmures within it self though it doth not swell signifies wind 60. The shoars resounding in a calm and the sound of the Sea it self with a clear noise and a certain Eccho heard plainer and further than ordinary presages winds 61. If in a calm and smooth sea we espie froth here and there or white Circles or Bubbles of water they are Prognosticks of winds and if these Presages be very apparent they foreshew rough tempests 62. If in a rough sea there appear a shining froth which they call sealungs it foreshews a lasting tempest for many days 63. If the sea swell silently and rises higher than ordinary within the Harbour or the Tide come in sooner than it uses to do it foretels wind 64. Sound from the Hils and the murmure of woods growing lowder and a noise in open Champion fields portends wind Also a prodigiius murmuring of the Element without Thunder for the most part presages winds 65. Leaves and straws playing on the ground without any breath of wind that can be felt and the Down of Plants flying about Feathers swimming and playing upon the water signifie that wind is near at hand 66. Water Fowls flying at one another and flying together in flocks especially sea-Mews and Gulls flying from the sea and lakes and hastning to the banks and shoars especially if they make a noise and play upon dry land they are Prognosticks of winds especially if they do so in the morning 67. But contrariwise sea fowls going to the water and beating with their wings chattering and bathing themselves especially the Crow are all presages of storms 68. Duckers and Ducks cleanse their feathers with their Bills against wind but Geese with their importunate crying call for rain 69. A Hern flying high so that it sometimes flies over a low Cloud signifies wind But Kites when they flye high foreshew fairweather 70. Crows as it were barking after a sobbing manner if they continue in it do presage winds but if they catchingly swallow up their voice again or croak a long time together it signifies that we shall have some showrs 71. A chattering Owl was thought by the Ancients to fore-tel change of weather if it were fair rain if Cloudy fair weather But with us the Owl making a clear and

If the body of the Sun it self appears at its setting of the colour of bloud it foretokens great winds for many days 4. If at Sun rising its beams appear rather red than yellow it sign fies wind rather than rain and the like if they appear so at its setting 5. If at Sun rising or setting its rays appear contracted or shortned and do not shine out bright though the weather be not cloudy it signifies rain rather than wind 6. If before Sun rising there appear some rays as fore-runners it signifies both wind and rain 7. If the Sun at its rising diffuses its rays through the Clouds the middle of the Sun remaining still under Clouds it shall signifie rain especially if those beams break out downwards that the Sun appears as it were with a Beard But if the raies break forth out of the middle or dispersed and its exterior body or the out-parts of it be covered with clouds it fore-shewes great tempests both of wind and rain 8. If the Sun when it rises be encompassed with a Circle let wind be expected from that side on which the Circle opens But if the Circle fall off all at one time it will be fair weather 9. If at the setting of the Sun there appears a white Circle about it it signifies some small storm the same night if black or darkness much wind the day following 10. If the Clouds look red at Sun-rising they are Prognosticks of wind if at Sun-setting of a fair ensuing day 11. If about the rising of the Sun Clouds do gather themselves about it they foreshew rough storms that day but if they be driven back from the rising towards the setting of the Sun they signifie fair weather 12. If at Sun-rising the Clouds be dispersed from the sides of the Sun some South-ward and some North-ward though the sky be clear about the Sun it fore-shews wind 13. If the Sun goes down in a Cloud it fore-shewes rain the next day but if it rains at Sun-setting it is a token of wind rather But if the Clouds seem to be as it were drawn towards the Sun it signifies both wind and storms 14. If Clouds at the rising of the Sun seem not to encompass it but to lie over it as if they were about to Eclipse it they fore-shew the rising of winds on that side as the Clouds incline And if they do this about noon they signifie both wind and rain 15. If the Clouds have encompassed the Sun the less light they leave it and the lesser the Orb of the Sun appears so much the more raging shall the tempest be but if there appear a double or treble Orb as though there were two or three Suns the Tempest will be so much the more violent for many days 16. New Moons presage the dispositions of the Air but especially the fourth rising of it as if it were a confirmed New Moon The full Moons likewise do presage more than the days which come after 17. By long observation the fifth day of the Moon is feared by Mariners for stormy 18. If the New Moon do not appear before the fourth day it fore-shews a troubled air for the whole Month. 19. If the New Moon at her first appearance or within a few days after have its lower horn obscure or dusky or any way blemished it signifies stormy and tempestuous days before the Full Moon if it be ill coloured in the middle Tempests will come about the Full of the Moon if it be so about the upper part of the horn they will be about the decreasing of the Moon 20. If at the fourth rising the Moon appear bright with sharp horns not lying flat nor standing upright but in a middle kind of posture between both it promises fair weather for the most part until the next New Moon 21. If at the same rising it be red it portends winds if dusky or black rain but howsoever it signifies nothing beyond the Full Moon 22. An upright Moon is almost always threatning and hurtful but it chiefly portends winds But if it have blunt horns and as it were cut off short it rather signifies rain 23. If one horn of the Moon be sharp and the other blunt it signifies wind if both be blunt rain 24. If a Circle or Halo appear about the Moon it signifies rain rather than wind unless the Moon stands directly within that Circle for then it signifies both 25. Circles about the Moon always foreshew winds on that side where they break also a notable shining in some part of the Circle signifies winds from that part where the shining is 26. If the Circles about the Moon be double or treble they fore-shew horrible and rough Tempests and especially if those Circles be not whole but spotted and divided 27. Full Moons as concerning the Colours and Circles do in a manner foreshew the same things as the fourth rising but more present and not so long delayed 28. Full Moons use to be more clear than the other ages of the Moon and in winter use to be far colder 29. The Moon appearing larger at the going down of the Sun if it be splendent and not dusky betokens fair weather for many days 30. Winds almost continually follow the Eclipses of the Moon and fair weather the Eclipses of the Sun rain comes after neither 31. From the Conjunctions of any of the Planets but only the Sun you may expect winds both before and after from their conjunctions with the Sun fair weather 32. At the rising of the Pleiades and Hyades come showres of rain but calm ones after the rising of Arcturus and Orion tempests 33. Returning and shooting stars as we call them signifie winds to come from that place whence they run or are shot but if they flye from several or contrary parts it is a sign of great approaching storms of wind and rain 34. When such little stars as those which are called Aselli are not seen generally all over the sky it foreshews great tempests and rain within some few days But if they be seen in some places and not in other some it foreshews winds only and that suddenly 35. The sky when it is all over bright in a New-Moon or at the fourth rising of it portends fair weather for many days if it be all over dark it foreshews rain if partly dark and partly fair it portends wind of that side where the darkness is seen But if it grow dark on a sudden without either Cloud or Mist to dimn the brightness of the Stars there are great and rough tempests a breeding 36. If an entire Circle incloseth a Planet or any of the greater stars it foreshews wind if it be a broken Circle wind from those parts where the Circle is deficient 37. When the Thunder is more than the Lightnings there will be great winds but if the Lightnings be thick amidst the thundering it fore-shews thick showres with great drops 38. Morning Thunders signifie wind mid-day Thunders rain