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A96648	Natures secrets. Or, The admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors. Particularly describing, the temperatures and qualities of the four elements, the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars: the efficient and finall causes of comets, earthquakes, deluges, epidemicall diseases, and prodigies of precedent times; registred by the students of nature. Their conjecturall presages of the weather, from the planets mutuall aspects, and sublunary bodies: with the proportions and observations on the weather-glass, with philosophicall paraphrases rendred explicitely, usefull at sea and land. / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford, Gent.	Willsford, Thomas.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1658 (1658)	Wing W2875; Thomason E1775_2; ESTC R204119	105,190	225

calling the one Winter and the other Sommer but Nature does seem to make four Seasons and those neither beginning nor terminating at any strict time but according to the temperature and disposition of the Air least her fruitful womb should produce abortives or want time for maturity so to avoid these inconveniencies Nature like a carefull Mother produces every plant and all her fruits in due and fit seasons and least sensitive creatures should miscarry she delivers them her dictates by instinct or some inward motion There are observed many signs in every Climate and particular Country which in England are these and the diseases inherent and common in the 4. quarters Spring THis a comfortable and pleasant quarter every thing beginning for to spring and raise up their spirits from their roots buried in the Earth and fiezed upon by the cold of Winter as by the hand of Death The first bird that brings us tidings of the approaching Spring is the Wagtail or Water-Swallow whom some call the Barly-Bird as observed a convenient time to sow that seed being a tender grain next does appear the Swallow but one will not make a Sommer for when they come single and obscure themselves again expect some cold and stormy weather the Woodcock takes her leave and departs the Land next comes the Nightingal making the nights pleasant with her melodious harmony and lastly the adulterous and ungrateful Cuckow the plants and vegetables do shew the Spring by adorning the fields with pleasant and fragrant flowers as witnesse the oderiferous Violet perfuming the Air with a grateful smell and divers others Diseases incident to this quarter are Leprosies Tooth-ach Feavers Pushes Great and Small Pox Falling-sicknesse Ring-worms Kings-evil Wens Squincies and generally pains in the body and bones proceeding from old fractures bruises and inveterate maladies Sommer THe days being long and the Sun scorching hot the Creatures of the Earth having reared and brought up their young progeny to perfection the fruits grow now to maturity ready to entertain them and cherish their bodies provided for the use of Man Ceres injoying the fruits of her labours the days all this season declining but affording many sweet and pleasant flowers in every Country as Clove-Gilliflowers Roses c. Store of Acorns presages a hard Winter to ensue The diseases most frequent in this quarter are pains about the Brest Ribs and Spleen Pushes and diseases of the face Leprosies sore eyes Plurisies pains of the stomach and belly Pestilence Feavers Apostumes Jaundise and divers maladies and infirmities proceeding of Melancholy Autumn THe Wood-cock comes in with this season and the Swallow departs taking her young retinue Vindemiatrix now provides us Wine against cold Winter whereby to drown our cares and labours past and refresh us to begin anew the sap in most vegetables returns into their roots under ground or more rational to humain capacities the vegetable humor is contracted in their bodies with cold and heat extenuates or dilates that infused spirit which attracts by vertue of the roots a nutriment from the Earth according to its natural faculty which supply failing in his proper season and time of year the radical humor and sap in the body contracting their leaves must fall and their glories fade an emblem of mortality and transitory beauty the Earth growing white like declining age Diseases that reign this quarter are many as Agues Aches in the bone Pains in the back dimnesse of Sight retention of Urine Fluxes of bloud infirmities in the Face and Eyes Cankers Fistulaes Emrods Stone Gravel pains in the secret parts and all such diseases as attend the Spring all evill and inveterate humors in the Spring and Fall do increase and flow which were detained with the heat of Sommer and cold of Winter Winter THe flocking of small birds together foreshews the approach of this Season with the coming over of Feltisers and divers sorts of other little birds the days being at shortest some things do flourish as an herb called Christ-worte for at the time of Christmas it hath constantly flowers if much frost and snow hinders it not the terminating of this season is observed in Ducks and divers other water-fowl The infirmities subject to man in this season are most usually these viz. Red spots Pushes in the face Fluxes of blood in the inferiour parts Scabs Leprosies Toothach pains in the Eyes Palsies Gouts and all cold and phlegmatick diseases of these 4. Seasons thus writeth Ovid. lib. 1. de Rem Amo. Poma dat Autumnus formosa est messibus Aestas Ver praebet flores igne levatur Hyems Signs presaging good or bad Years 1. AN overmoist Spring causeth weeds to abound fruits to be scarce and not good if dry and hot grain will be good but no great increase if temperately hot and moderately moist it foreshews a plentiful Sommer but if over-hot and moist a fickly year will follow 2. The Broom having plenty of blossoms or the Walnut-tree is a sign of a fruitful year of Corn for that temperature of the weather is grateful and nourishing unto them alike 3. All Comets and great eclipses at the blooming of fruits is held generally hurtful unto those which it then happens to 4. A dry Spring with Northern winds following a wet Winter with many Southern winds causeth often abortives and weak children Gallen lib. 3. Aphorism 3. 5. Great store of Nuts and Almonds presage a plentiful year of Corn especially Filberds 6. When Roses and Violets flourish in Autumn it is an evill sign of an insuing Plague the year following or some pestiferous disease for much heat in this Season corrupteth the blood Winter over-moist and warm is unseasonable for this Quarter prejudicial to the husbandman and a friend to the Physitian and Sexton especially if it be infected with many fogs and great mists which causeth sterility and corrupteth the Air but much frost with snow presages a wholesome and plentiful year to follow Many other presages I could have inserted both of the weather and seasons of the year but such as would incumber the work trouble the Reader and perhaps superfluous as leaves in the wind or down-floating upon the water are signs of tempests others again doubtful and not to be credited as in Autumn some say in the Gall or Oak-apple one of these three things will be found if cut in pieces a Flie denoting want a Worm plenty but if a Spider mortality Others observe the twelve days of Christmas to foreshew the weather in all the twelve succeeding moneths respectively Some again observe the 25 day of January celebrated for the conversion of St. Paul if fair and clear plenty if cloudy or misty much cattle will die if rain or snow fall that day it presages a dearth and if windy wars as old Wives do dream and since I can find no better authority for these nor any days presages as a thing indifferent I will leave them and persist here no longer but subscribe the Verses upon the

receive the water which you may thus provide if you would have a red water take Vermilion a green colour is more pleasant and visible which is thus made take Verdigrease and ½ so much Roman vitrial beaten small and put them into the best white Wine vinegar the quantity as you shall see convenient the colour and bignesse of the cestern consider'd these being infus'd and sturr'd together let them stand 2 or 3 days until the water be coloured to your mind if it proves too deep a green pour in a little more Vinegar or strong Water to it This being provided take the circumference of the globe at A with ¼ part more or 4 diameters if you can and place it on the shank with a string equidistant from the head as at the cestern there make two marks and divide that space into what parts you please 15 degrees or equal parts I conceive the best 8 being the Arithmetical medium if the shank be not taper'd write the figures on paper and past them upon the glasse in a continued Arithmetical Progression ascending from 1 to 15 make a Frame that the glasse may stand fast and about the cestern a rock or what you fancy best This done put the water into the Bolts head and holding that in your hand put it into the Frame and Cestern then turn it suddenly the right way and upon the bottome let it rest awhile Observe at what figure the water stands let it at the first be too high then raise up gently the long glasse so that the water may fall down into the cestern and try it for two or three days and when it is at a place that fits the temperature of the Air and Season of the year viz. 1 2 or 3. if it be in the heat of Sommer but at 13 14 or 15. in the cold of Winter if a little frost such as we have in September place it at 9 or 10 but if very temperate weather as between hot and cold the water must stand at 8 a medium having tri'd and fitted it well according to the temperature of the outward Air for it must be kept from fire and accidental heat close it or lute it up at the neck of the cestern leaving onely some cane for a vent as you see at C whereby the Air may passe in or out of the cestern accordingly as the water doth rise or fall for the long glasse must always stand in the water and almost touch the bottome of the receiver or lower vessel as at B if the Air gets into the long glasse anywhere after it is placed according to the weather the work is frustrated A PERPETUAL KALENDER OR Diurnal for the weather with general and particular observations diligently selected and compendiously inserted demonstrating perspicuously in a Glasse the Airs mutability and the weathers vicissitude with the present temper and Season of the year observing the water on serene days at these degrees Viz. 1 2 3 Shews the extreme heat of Sommer 4 5 Is excessive hot and sultry weather 6 7 Is more hot than cold a pleasant season 8 The medium betwixt Sommer Winter 9 10 More cold than hot with gentle frosts 11 12 Is excessive cold and frosty weather 13 14 15 Shews the extreme cold of Winter 1. THe efficient cause why this water riseth and falls is from the condensing or dilating of the outward Air made visible by a sympathetical imitation of the parts here inclos'd upon any alteration of the weather presag'd from hence by experience observing that Cold and Drought do contract Heat and Moisture rarifies 2 The sudden salling of the water foreshews an immediate approaching Storm of Thunder Lightning Rain Hail or Snow 3 If the water falls a degree in 6 hours it will Rain within 12 hours after if not misty close or sultry weather for the Season 4 If the water fals much in the day and riseth but little in the night yet the weather continuing fair expect then excessive heat if not Thunder and Lightning 5 If the water falls never so little between Sun-setting and his rising next day it will Rain or Snow before 12 the following night if the Meteor converts not to what is worse a Calydonian Mist 6 If the water falls not in the time of artificial day it prognosticates northerly winds a cold night to ensue or storms of Hail at hand 7 If the water keeps neer any degree a natural day the weather will continue whether it be fair or foul but if it rises or falls a degree and stands the weather will quickly change to some excess 8 If the water falls no more in the day then it did rise in the night it is a sign that the Air is temperate the heat of the day equally qualifying the coldnesse of the night or else it argues the weather to be at a doubtful stay 9 The often rising and falling of the water shews the outward Air very mutable the temper various and the weather unconstant 10 When the water riseth not in the night-time expect then Mists dark foul and foggy weather the next day if not Thunder and Lightning in Sommer 11 The water rising any day in fair weather presages a frost the following night or cold windy weather for the Season if no immediate storm of Hail invades the earth 12 If the water riseth in foul weather whether it be day or night it prognosticates the storm is nigh past and fair weather will consequently ensue 13 The more that the water riseth or falls at any time the more violent will be the change of weather and of longer continuance whether fair or foul hot or cold as if it ascends 2 degrees in the day or 3 in the night or falls 2 in the night or 3 degrees in the day 14 Observe at what figure or degree the water did rise or fall when the weather chang'd for the Airs temper will continue in the same state until the water returns to that place again excepting the extreams of Winter and Sommer 15 So long as the water shall continue above 10 ascending 't will be frost if it falls below 9 't will break unlesse it rises within 12 hours after if from above 12 it descends a degree or two and stands expect then Snow Sleet cold or slabby weather If the Bolts-head be not prepar'd neer the dimensions given the water will rise and fall as the inclosed air contracts or rarifies but not in proportion to satisfie curious expectation nor exactly ratifie all the 15 prescribed observations Besides Countries particular places houses and rooms according to their situations or accidental causes will change the Airs temper all which with other circumstances I refer to the ingenious and my following Paraphrase to their exposition A Paraphrase upon the Weather GLASSE NAture in all her works abhors a Vacuum so that no sublunary place can be empty or void but is supplyed by one of the four Elements from hence it

mist the Southern winds will rage and if the Southern Ass be hidden from your sight then look for storms and tempests from the North or East 4. The Dolphin setting Acronycally produceth cold winds 5. Vindemiatrix rising Acronically causeth cold Northerly winds 6. The Cosmical Rising of the Pleiades is a sign of Westerly winds the Acronycal setting bringeth Southerly winds 7. Sirius setting Acronycally causeth South west winds and sometimes tempests 8. The Caniculare days bring the Easterly winds and the Cosmical setting Southerly weather and tempests the Heliacal rising or apparition of Sirius did begin the Graecian year 9. The Cosmical setting of the Eagle produceth Eastern winds 10. Regulus setting Acronycally doth cause Westerly winds lasting oftentimes for 9. days but seldome very violent 11. Vindemiatrix rising Cosmically produceth North-west winds and white frosts if the first day of September be fair it betokens a dry Autumn 12. The Cosmical rising of the Northern Crown produceth cold winds 13. Virgiliae setting Cosmically bringeth Northern-winds if at this time the Sky be dark or cloudy it foreshews a wet Winter and very cold if dry and clear 14. Arcturus setting Acronycally produceth Southerly winds and much rain to follow if it rains at his Heliacal setting or occultation Saturn ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ or any one of these rising or setting with the Triangle with ♒ with the belly of the Southern Fish with the right shoulder of Auriga with the foremost head of ♊ with Praesepe and the two Asses with Orions Girdle or ♍ the Crown Arcturus with Hereules or with the Ballance all these produceth winds and many times violent tempests especially the aforesaid Planets being stationary or retrograde 16. Mercurius doth produce winds if he riseth or setteth with the thigh of Pegasus with Auriga with the Triangle with the Rams head sharp and cold winds with the Pleiades wind and rain with ♊ with Orion tempests and often thunder and lightning and so likewise with Praesepe either Dog or Regulus the Hydras heart Arcturus and Spica ♍ winds and cloudy weather and likewise rising or setting with the Vulture the Ballance the Eagle or the Dolphin ascending or descending the Horizon with ☿ causeth often winds and cloudy weather with the cloudy Stars of ♐ lowring weather but with Acarner clear days and warm winds and usually so with most Stars of the nature of ♃ and so much for this Generall Aphorisms in Prognosticating storms and tempests selected out of Cardanus Maginus and Durret THe twelve Signes of the Zodiack doe contain the nature of the four Elements and these twelve Signes by transmutation of their places are divided into four Trigones each of them containing the temperature and qualities of one Element as was declared already in the Worlds Epitomy and being they are conceived to have their severall effects in producing of particular winds I will once again insert them v.z. ♈ ♌ ♐ produceth Northwest winds ♊ ♎ ♒ produceth Northeast winds ♋ ♏ ♓ causeth Southwest winds ♉ ♍ ♑ raiseth Southeast winds and thus are the twelve Signs appropriated to the four points of the horizon equally between the four cardinall winds yet you must consider the nature of the fixed and wandring Stars ascending with them in every particular Horizon The presaging of the winds depends upon many causes and are as various as they be inconstant and besides all this you must know the winds are appropriated unto each proper Planet as the East to ♄ the North to ♃ the West to ♂ the South to ♀ and ☉ also to the East and ☽ to the West as for ☿ he is indifferent to the other six according to the conjunction of his rays with them For if he applies himself to ♄ he produceth great winds cloudy or rainy weather if to ♃ warm gales with some rain to ♂ or ☉ hot and corrupt winds and with ☿ or ☽ moist winds If ☿ changes his latitude it argues winds if stationary or retrograde or going from one sign and entring the other betokeneth great winds ♄ also doth alter the weather for many days together in his removing from any one sign into another especially being retrograde and having latitude towards the pole elevated and the Apogaeon or Perigaeon of the Planets is to be considered There is never any great mutation of the Air without the ☌ or aspect either of ♄ ♃ or ♂ by reason their motions are so slow great ☌ of Planets that are of contrary naures do cause contrary winds much rain hail or snow according to the season of the year hail is multiplied by the ☌ of hot Planets in fiery Signs the wandring Stars in their swift motions do beget drought and likewise if they be direct and Oriental but if slow retrograde or occidental they do produce rain excepting ♂ and stationary they do generally cause winds and ☿ instability of the Air and likewise many ☌ or Aspects of the Planets concurring at one time do pronounce great mutability of the weather and do usually very much distemper the Element in this Cardanus is oppugnant to Leupold Here we are arrived having past many ambiguous Meanders and obscure Laborinths of humane Hypothesis concerning the nature and effects of the fixed and wandring Stars through which I cannot guide you in a direct line with a thread but am forced to follow the observations of others and the rules by them prescribed and delivered to Astronomers by succession from one ensuing Age unto another yet with several opinions according to the diversity of men and the Countrys they lived in as Aegypt Italy Germany and the like These several temperatures of Climates have caused errors in our later observations whereas their rules were true perhaps in those Regions where they did inhabite I have therefore delivered some things twice to shew how several mens opinions do concur others again I have given you almost oppugnant yet may be in some things reconciled which to do I refer to your candid Judgement to choose correct or reject as you please I have shewn you rules and prognostications of the weather both for days years and the several seasons thereof as by the fixed Stars and Planets with the effects of their influences commixt according to humane conjectures And now I will place before your eyes predictions of the weather by mutual Aspects of the Planets only with themselves which way is generally held and approved for to be the best and most assured tract to follow as in things that depends upon so many and uncertain causes yet it is convenient to ponder in your judgement the former rules prescribed and those well weighed and considered I will leave it to your application and so proceed to the observations of Maginus with some diligent collections of my own annexed thereunto But first there ought to be considered whether either Planet were retrograde at the time of conjuction or in any other Aspect of which these are the chiefest and held of

same account If Saint Paul 's day be fair and clear It does betide a happy year But if it chance to snow or rain Then will be dear all kind of grain If clouds or mists do dark the Skie Great store of birds and beasts shall die And if the winds do fly aloft Then wars shall vex that Kingdome oft A Conclusion with a Paraphrase upon the presages by sensitive Creatures in general SIgns both of the weather and the seasons I have hewn you yet have omitted many but such as are best known to those who are sensible of them and of these there be some who supprest with the heavy burden of many years are forced to stoop and strike sail to time their bodies almost worn out with old decrepit age scarcely tenentable to the vital parts which Nature can hardly inable for to keep possession being dayly in danger to be ejected by rigid Death who admits no bail such as these are sensible of the Airs alteration like an old ruined tenement that lies open unto the assaults of every little storm and may unhappily know the weather and seasons of the year Others there be in the glory and prime of their youth that do know all this and more certainly then can the dictates of old age deliver it having in every joynt a Calender that shews them the weather with the Spring and Fall as a Memorandum of their fond and licentious youth wherein they have incurred the displeasure of just Heaven and rewarded with the fruits of sin Yet in this I do not censure all for some knows it through the crimes of others and many by casualties fractures of bones bruises old sores aches cramps gouts corns of their feet agues and almost innumerable diseases and imperfections of Nature incident to frail man for excepting such like accidents or signs derived from experience or grounded upon some reason to be held weather-wise is an argument of folly The cause why Ideots can so well fore-know the weathers alteration is partly they being defective in their understandings as wanting the use of reason Nature does the more assist them or they being cold and phlegmatick as appears by their slavering they are the more sensible of the Airs change as it is agreeable or oppugnant to the temperature and constitution of their bodies whereas Man endowed with the use of reason and discourse contemplates of the cause and nature of things which so implies the senses that the Air infused into the poars of such bodies cannot have any powerful operation and besides their constitutions are composed with a better concord of the 4 Elements so that the Airs alteration cannot so soon and sensibly work those effects in such bodies being perfectly in health and reason of their counsel For 't is Natures care to provide best for those things which are in most danger of shortest life or can least help or shift for themselves as to some she gives strength in arms to others swiftnesse of feet or wings agility of body and the like some little creatures are made a prey by others or their lives but short to these she gives a fruitful offspring as for example what multitudes of little Birds more then Eagles or fowls of prey Herrings in number exceeding Whales with comparison behold also the providence of the immense Creator that all these several kinds do subsist and in such Springs or Sommers whose temperatures of heat shall produce cold Winters there Nature does commonly provide plenty before hand as Akorns Hipps Hawes and divers other sorts of Berries for the subsistance of sundry sorts of little birds animals that otherwise would have perished with cold and for want of meat which is armour of proof against the weather By Natures instinct from these Man as in a Calender may read the weather and the seasons of the year every body having small poars into which the Air does continually infuse it self and as it is rarified or condensed it alters the disposition of the body but more or lesse according to the constitution and as it is agreeable or oppugnant to the natural temperature thereof as for an instance Bees and Emmots being of a fiery nature as appears by their choler and industry the Air infused into their little members towards rain being moist and opposite to their natures stupifies their senses and makes them heavy and not apt to labour or go abroad This is the cause that Bees keep in their hives or will not go far from thence when the Air grows moist and the weather inclining to rain from hence is the motive that the laborious Emmots desire rest and withdraw themselves into the caverns of the earth carrying their eggs with them as by a natural instinct whereby to preserve their progeny for by the fervour of the Sun they must be disclosed and by a storm of rain they would be chill and perish the reason is generally the same in other sensitive creatures whose corps are sensible of the Airs change that alters them according to the natural temperature and disposition of their bodies some creatures requiring heat others moisture what pleases one distasts some other and so of all living things Salamanders love Fire Birds Air Fishes Water and Beasts Earth So these Elements as they are mixt and predominating do offend or please the natural disposition of the creature This Monarchy and Common-wealth I choose as for an explanation of the rest they being the most industrious the most sensible and most subject for to be prejudiced by the incursions or suddain assaults of the weather and so here I will conclude with Virgil Geor. lib. 1. Haud equidem credo quia sit divinitus illis Jngenium aut rerum fato prudentia major Verum ubi tempestas coeli mobilis humor Mutavere vias Jupiter humidas austris Densat erant quae rara modo quae densa relaxant Vertuntur species animorum pectora motus Nunc alios alios dum nubila ventus agebat Concipiunt Hinc ille avium concentus in agris Et laetae pecudes ovantes gutture corvi The Weather Glass or perpetual Kalender B● this artificial means you may at any time ●ither in the day or night discover certainly the Airs alteration as it does condense or rarifie and ●o from thence presage the future weather which the better and the more sensible to effect I will prescribe a proportion for the Glass the manner how to devide it and make a water that will not freez much more beautiful and conspicuous then ordinary water First provide a Bolts head of a cleer transparent Glasse in form as you see the figure the end at A like a Globe in content to the whole ¾ or ⅘ let the shanke be in circumference ¼ or ⅕ of the head at A then 1 ½ or 1 ¾ of the Globes circle the length unto B where must be a Glasse in content about half of the bolts head as for a cestern to

Meteors seldome seen little observed in prognostication of the weather and so I shall lead you no further until a better discovery of their natures be made and their effects better known which are generally held unwholesome and so let them pasle as Ignes fatui By terrestial fires 49. WHen our common fires do burn with a pale flame they presage foul weather 50 If the fire do make a huzzing noise it is a sign of tempests neer at hand 51. If the flame of a candle lamp or any other fire does wave or wind it self where there is no sensible or visible cause expect some windy weather 52. When candles or lamps will not so readily kindle as at other times it is a sign of wet weather neer at hand 53. When the fire sparkleth very much it is a sign of rain 54. If the ashes on the herth do clodder together of themselves it is a sign of rain 55. When candles or lamps do sparkle and rise up with little fumes or their wicks swell with things on them like mushrums are all signs of ensuing wet weather 56 When pots are newly taken off from the fire if they sparkle the soot upon them being incensed it presages rain 57. When the fire scorcheth and burneth more vehemently then it useth to do it is a sign of frosty weather but if the living coals do shine brighter then commonly at other times expect then rain 58. If wood or any other fuel do crackle and break forth wind more then ordinary it is an evident sign of some tempestuous weather neer at hand the much and suddain falling of soot presages rain A Paraphrase THe natural cause of these as I suppose is this the Air in the lower Region being apt for either heat or cold does alter according to the inclination of the weather whether it be disposed to heat cold rain or wind the Air thus altering when it becomes waterish makes the flaming fire appear pale candles nor lamps apt to light their cotten-wicks to swell with tumors upon them like horse-shooes or mushrums the moist air being got into them which by opposition makes the fire to sparkle or being cold inclining to frost it causes it to scorch the Air which does infuse it self into the pores of the fewel being moist and rarified by the fire turns into wind and so wanting room breaks a passage forth which makes the wood to crackle the flame to wave and sparkles to fly and this in brief is the cause of them so far as I conceive our fewel being commixed of the four Elements and so by opposition or participation these effects are caused and this makes the soot in chimneys for to fall being by nature dry and loosned by the moistnesse of the Air. By Air Winds Clouds and Mists THe Air in which we breath being commixt and no pure Element doth generate several Meteors as was said already in the second part and the presages these if the Air seem dusky hotter then ordinary and unapt to breath in expect then thunder and lightning 60. When the ringing of Bells or other sounds are heard more plain then at other times and if by intervals it shews the Air to be dilated and disturbed which presages either wind or rain if not both 61. A sharp and cold wind after rain foresheweth more to come the exhalation or vapour not being spent in the former showre 62. Winds that do continue long in any one point will cause the weather for to be generally the same whether it be fair or soul but if it shifts often in changing the place it presages rain quickly after to ensue but in times of frost it is a sign that the weather will break 63. Whirlwinds do predict approaching storms usually of rain or hail these you may foresee by raising the dust or any such light materials and and oftentimes these whirlwinds are forerunners of great tempests for it is a windy exhalation driven obliquely upon the horizontal plain and forced down by the coldnesse or moisture of the present Air in the lower Region this repercursion of the Air causeth chimneys to smoak more then usually they do at other times presaging rain or great winds 64. Sometimes these whirlwinds are caused by the meeting of one another and so raising light things as in contention hurling them to and fro at the pleasure of the prevailing party and such as these do usually presage tempests as you see when the clouds are moved several ways at once and from the same cause above as it is below 65. It is probable that there is also many exhalations which do suddenly break out of the Earth and do produce these whirlwinds which are by nature held hot and dry the cause how these do predict storms and tempests is conceived this against rain or any wet weather the pores of the Earth does naturally open and so gives a passage to them they being hot and dry do strive for to ascend and so much the more then the exhalation being opposed by the moistnesse and the coldness of the Air infused into the Earth which changes as the Element does 66. These whirlwinds are precursors of tempests when the Air inclosed in the Earth is apt for to convert it self into these windy exhalations and there increasing so as it cannot be contained yet not so restrained as to cause an Earth-quake but finds an easie passage through the pores of the Earth whereby to evaporate and free it self from restraint into the open Air. 67. These exhalations when they happen for to be frozen in with extream cold weather in winter and venting themselves in waterish places as in the bottome of great ponds meers or rivers where by Antiperistafis or opposition of the cold waters it does congeal the bottome when the outward air cannot freeze the top or superficies of the water by reason of the motion but in the deeps where it is still and quiet these are called anchor or subterranean frosts they are not usual neither will they endure long but when they do happen it is most commonly extream cold weather and little or no snow these are generally held very hurtful unto plants and destructive to the fishes and by freezing up the channels make the rivers overflow 68. When the Air is dilated or rarified it is a sign of much heat or against rain which by your smelling you may know when shoars nasty places or things corrupted are more offensive then at other times 69. When the clouds be dark deep and very spissious it is a sign of rain and sometimes tempestuous weather 70. Many scattering clouds wandering in the Air and moving swiftly argues wind or rain and from the North or South it is the worse but if the racke rides both wayes it foreshews a tempest 71. If the racke in the forenoon rides in the Air from the East westward it argues rain at night but if from the West it does foreshew a cloudy morning if not rain and at any

time of day when the Sun beams and wind meet it may cause the same effect by vertue of his rays 72. When the clouds seem piled upon heaps like fleeces of wool it presages wet weather and neer at hand 73. If the clouds fly low in Sommer it is a sign of rain and in Winter it prenotes cold weather to ensue quickly after 74. When the clouds seem white and jagged as if rent asunder gathering together in a body their forces united do foretel a storm the nature of the exhalation is apparently turbulent by the form and colour 75. Hollow and murmuring winds do presage stormy weather for it shews the Air is moist and dilated so cannot find an easie passage but is opposed or hindred in the motion by hills trees and hollow places which it gets into and makes a noise 76. The Air being a subtile body infuses it self into the pores of timber boards c. and against rain being converted into water or a moisture which makes boards to swell and is the cause that Wainscot and Joyners work doth crack against wet weather doors will not easily shut or open c. 77. Paper against wet weather will grow weak damp and swell the reason is the same with the last but in writing paper it will sooner be perceived and more certainly predict the weather because it is done over with a thin substance of a gummy nature which with the waterishnesse of the Air dissolves and grows moist giving way for the Incke to soke into the paper which the Gum in dry weather will not permit 78. When the clouds seem overcharged and white withal like towers expect then hail or snow according to the season of the year 79. After a storm of hail expect a frost to follow the next day after 80. When Spiders webs poplare and thistledoune and such light things do fly in the Air up and down as it were to make nature sport or a type of Fortunes favours these are signs of the weathers changing and speedy mutability for these things of lenity are easily moved by the first insurrection of any exhalation precursor of the weathers change and oftentimes wind 81. Mists descending from the tops of hills and settling in the valleys is a sign of a fair day especially in Sommer time and then an argument of heat for they were exhalations raised by the ferver of the Sun and by the Air in the evening which in hot weather is coldest it is converted into mists and dews as a necessary provision of Nature to cool the Earth and refresh her fruits whereby to enable them that they may endure the next days heat White mists are the same but more waterish and inclining to rain and if they do ascend it presages rain and argues the middle Region of the Air not for to be very cold the lowest water●sh and the vapour warm 82. If in calm and serene weather you do observe the rack to ride a pace expect winds from that quarter for it is evident that the exhalation above in the clouds converts into a wind or rain and will descend but if clouds do ascend any day it presages the storm is past But neither this nor some of the other observations are conceived general diversity of climates producing several and various effects and besides the season of the year ought to be considered the weather having peculiar properties in several Countries and places as the nights in Africa are dewy in Winter clouds in Aegypt so heavy as if the Air were unable to support them and in such tumults as if they threatned the world with a deluge yet march all away without any drop of rain Locri and the lake Velinus in Italy have no day but there is a Rain-bow appears in Syracusa and Rhodes no day in all the year so cloudy but that the Sun is seen to those places most hot Countrys neer the torrid Zone have frequent flashes of lightning and in their Winter often without rain with many other observations purposely here omitted By Water and Earth 83. THe water of the Fens and standing pools growing warm without heat of the Sun more then usually is a sign of much rain the Element of water being rarisied as appears by the parts 84. The rain falling in small drops argues those clouds were high from whence it fell and a sign of much wet 85. If the rain be whitish and falling into water riseth up in bubbles it shews the rain will continue and that the water is then full of windy exhalations and if the showre does cease the wind will succeed it 86. The rain falling upon the Earth or floods if soon drunk up are signs of more 87. Linnen or woollen cloth dipped in the water and exposed to the Air if it soon freezes it is a sign of much or violent frost 88. Drops of water after rain falling from the eves of houses slowly one after another is a sign of frost for the Air works easily upon small parcels foreshewing in those parts an inclination of the greater 89. If the Sea at low water within the harbour be calm and yet makes a rumbling noise it presages wind and if so by fits expect both cold weather and rain 90. If the Sea or Sea-bancks in calm weather make much noise or the billows seem to heave and rise up it presages a tempest neer at hand 91. If the Seas be very rough and boisterous the wind not great the waves have been disturbed either with a tempest past or else at one approaching and if the billows do make a noise as with a refracted Air like the murmuring sound of woods the storm is neer at hand 92. When the tops of high hills are clear and free from clouds or mists it is a sign of fair weather 93. If a murmuring sound be heard in valleys or from hollow caves within the Earth or rivers make a rumbling noise more then usual running with troubled streams any of these do presage a storm Presages of Earth quakes 94 The extraordinary swelling and rising up of the Seas when there is neither wind nor flood to cause it foreshews an Earth quake observed by Posidonius 95. When the waters in wells fountains or deep pits are much troubled and have an evil savour and a taste of sulphure that were pleasant before it does argue an Earth-quake 96. A roaring noise under the earth resembling thunder is the forerunner of an Earth-quake 97. When the Air for a long time wants motion and is still that birds can scarcely fly for want of wind it foreshews an Earth-quake 98. Aristotle with some others do say that a black and narrow streak or line right under the Sun stretched out to a great length and remaining or continuing long does presage an Earthquake but this doth rather signifie a great tranquillity of the Air and so a second cause but not the immediate A Paraphrase THe reason of these and the former signs of tempests by Water and