Vapours in them they are fair But notwithstanding sometimes they are pure and sometimes turbulent 10. The south and west wind here with us seem to be confederate and are warm and moist and on the other side the North and East winds have some affinity between them being cold and dry 11. The North and South winds whereof we have also spoken before do blow oftner than the East and West winds because there is a great inequality of vapours in those parts by reason of the absence and presence of the Sun but to the East and to the West the Sun is as it were indifferent 12. The south wind is very healthful when it comes from the Sea but when it blows from the Continent it is more unhealthful and so contrariwise the North wind is suspicious blowing from the Sea from the Continent it is healthful Likewise the south sea wind is very agreeable with Plants and Fruits killing their Cankers or rusts and other hurtful annoiances 13. A gentle south wind doth assemble and gather together Clouds much especially if it continue but a short while but if it blow too boisterously or long it clouds the skie and brings in rain But especially when it ceases or grows remiss more than in its beginning and when it is in its chiefest vigor 14. When the south wind either begins to blow or ceases for the most there are changes of weather from fair to cloudy and from hot to cold and contrariwise The North wind many times rises and ceases the former weather remaining and continuing 15. After hoary frosts and long continued snow there scarcely blows any other wind than a south wind there being as it were a concoction or digestion made of cold which then at last dissolves neither doth rain also follow but this likewise happens in changes or intervals of fair weather 16. The south wind rises oftner and blows stronger in the night than in the day especially in winter nights But the North wind if it rise in the night which is contrary to its custom it doth usually last above three days 17. When the south wind blows the waves swell higher than when the north wind blows though it blow with an equal or lesser force 18. The south wind blowing the sea becomes blew and more bright than when the North wind blows which causes it to look darker and blacker 19. When the air becomes warmer on a sudden it sometimes betokens rain and again at other times when on a sudden it grows colder it likewise betokens rain But this happens according to the Nature of the winds for if the air grow warm whilst the south or east wind blows there is rain at hand and likewise when it grows cold during the Northern or Western blasts 20. The south wind blows for the most part entire and alone But the north wind blowing especially the East North-East or the North-West often times contrary and various or divers winds blow together whereby they are broken and disturbed 21. Beware a Northern wind when you sow seed neither would I wish any one to inoculate or graft in a southern wind 22. Leaves fall from trees soonest on the south side but Vine sprouts or stalks bud forth and grow most that way 23. In large Pasture shepherds must take care as Pliny saith to bring their Flocks to the North side that they may feed against the South For if they feed towards the North they grow lame and bleereyed and distempered in their bellies The Northern wind also doth so weaken their coupling that if they couple looking that way they will for the most part bring forth Ewe-Lambs But Pliny doth not stand very stifly to this Opinion having as it were but taken it up upon trust and borrowed it 24. Winds are hurtful to Wheat and all manner of grain at three times namely at the opening and at the falling of the flower and when the grain it self is ripe for then they blow the Corn out of the Ear and at the other two times either they blast the flower or blow it off 25. While the south wind blows mens breath grow ranker all creatures appetites decay pestilent diseases reign men wax more slow and dull But when the wind is Northwardly men are more lively healthful and greedy after food Yet the Northern wind is hurtful for them that are troubled with the Phthisick Cough Gout or any other sharp defluxions 26. An East wind is dry piercing and mortifying The West wind moist meek and nourishing 27. If the East wind blow when the Spring is any thing forward it is hurtful to fruits bringing in of Worms and Caterpillars so that the leaves are hardly spared neither is it very good to grain Contrariwise the West wind is very propitious and friendly to Herbs Flowers and all manner of vegitables And so is the East wind too about the Autumnal Equinoctial 28. Western winds are more vehement than Eastern winds and bow and bend Trees more 29. Rainy weather which begins when the East wind blows doth last longer than that which begins when a West wind blows and may peradventure hold out for a whole day 30. The East and North wind when they once begin to blow blow more constantly the South and West wind are more mutable 31. In an Eastern wind all visible things do appear bigger But in a Western wind all audible things are heard further as sounds of Bells and the like 32. The East North-East wind draws Clouds to it It is a Proverb amongst the Greeks to compare it to Usurers who by laying out mony do swallow it up It is a vehement and large wind which cannot remove Clouds so fast as they will turn back and press upon it Which is likewise seen in great fires which grow stronger against the wind 33. Cardinal or Semi-Cardinal winds are not so stormy as the Median 34. Median winds from North to North-East are more fair from North-East to East more stormy Likewise from East to South-East more fair from South-East to South more stormy Likewise from South to South-West more fair from South-West to West more stormy Likewise from West to North-west more fair from North-west to North more stormy So that proceeding according to the order of the heavens the Median winds of the first half-ward are always disposed to fair weather those of the latter half-ward to storms and tempests 35. Thunders and Lightnings and storms with falling of broken Clouds are when cold winds as participate of the North do blow as the North-west North North-west North North-east North-east and East North-east Wherefore those thunders likely are accompanied with Hail 36. Likewise snowy winds come from the North but it is from those Median winds which are not stormy as the North-west and North-east and by North. 37. Winds gain their Natures and Properties five wayes onely Either by the absence or presence of the Sun or by agreeing or disagreeing with the natural Motion of the Air or by the
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
that will set all the air which is in a room in motion as appears by the blazing of the lights which are in the same room 24. As Dews and Mists are ingendred here in the lower air never coming to be Clouds nor penetrating to the middle region of the Air in the like manner are also many winds 25. A continual gale blows about the sea and other waters which is nothing but a small wind newly made up 26. The Rain-bow which is as it were the lowest of Meteors and nearest to us when it doth not appear whole but curtailed and as it were only some pieces of the horns of it is dissolved into winds as often or rather oftner than into rain 27. It hath been observed that there are some winds in Countrys which are divided and separated by hills which ordinarily blow on the one side of the hills and do not reach to the other Whereby it manifestly appears that they are engendred below the height of the said hills 28. There are an infinite sort of winds that blow in fair and clear days and also in Countrys where it never rains which are ingendred where they blow and never were Clouds nor did ever ascend into the middle region of the air Indirect Experiments Whosoever shall know how easily a Vapour is dissolved into air and how great a quantity of vapours there are and how much room a drop of water turned into air takes up more than it did before as we said already and how little the air will endure to be thrust up together will questionless affirm that of necessity winds must be every where ingendred from the very superficies of the earth even to the highest parts of the air For it cannot be that a great abundance of vapours when they begin to be dilatated and expanded can be lifted up to the middle region of the air without an over-burthening of the air and making a noise by the way Accidental generations of Winds To the Ninth Article Connexion WE call those Accidental generations of winds which do not make or beget the impulsive motion of winds but with compression do sharpen it by repercussion turn it by sinuation or winding do agitate and tumble it which is done by extrinsecal causes and the posture of the adjoining bodies 1. In places where there are hills which are not very high bordering upon Valleys and beyond them again higher hills there is a greater agitation of the air and sense of winds than there is in mountainous or plain places 2. In Cities if there be any place somewhat broader than ordinary and narrow goings out as Portals or Porches and Cross streets winds and fresh Gales are there to be perceived 3. In houses cool rooms are made by winds or happen to be so where the Air bloweth thorow and comes in on the one side and goeth out at the other But much more if the Air comes in several ways and meets in the corners and hath one common passage from thence the vaulting likewise and roundness doth contribute much to coolness because the air being moved is beaten back in every line Also the winding of Porches is better than if they were built straight out For a direct blast though it be not shut up but hath a free egress doth not make the air so unequal and voluminous and waving as the meeting at Angles and hollow places and windings round and the like 4. After great tempests at Sea an Accidental wind continues for a time after the original is laid which wind is made by the collision and percussion of the air through the curling of the waves 5. In gardens commonly there is a repercussion of wind from the walls and banks so that one would imagine the wind to come the contrary way from that whence it really comes 6. If Hills enclose a Country on the one side and the wind blows for some space of time from the plain against the Hill by the very repercussion of the Hill either the wind is turned into rain if it be a moist wind or into a contrary wind which will last but a little while 7. In the turnings of Promontory Mariners do often find changes and alterations of winds Extraordinary Winds and sudden Blasts To the tenth Article Connexion SOme men discourse of extraordinary winds and derive the causes of them of Clouds breaking or storms Vortice Typhone Prestere Or in English Whirl-winds But they do not relate the thing it self which must be taken out of Chronicles and several Histories 1. Sudden blasts never come in clear weather but always when the sky is cloudy and the weather rainy That it may justly be thought that there is a certain eruption made The blast driven out and the waters shaken 2. Storms which come with a Mist and a Fog and are called Belluae and bear up themselves like a Column are very vehement and dreadful to those who are at sea 3. The greater Typhones who will take up at some large distance and sup them as it were upward do happen but seldom but small whirl-winds come often 4. All storms and Typhones and great Whirlwinds have a manifest precipitous motion or darting downwards more than other winds so as they seem to fall like Torrents and run as it were in Channels and be afterward reverberated by the earth 5. In Meadows Haycocks are sometimes carryed on high and spread abroad there like Canopies Likewise in Fields Cocks of Pease reaped Wheat and cloaths laid out to drying are carried up by Whirl-winds as high as tops of Trees and Houses and these things are done without any extraordinary force or great vehemency of wind 6. Also sometimes there are very small whirl-winds and within a narrow compass which happen also in fair clear weather so that one that rides may see the dust or straws taken up and turned close by him yet he himself not feel the wind much which things are done questionless near unto us by contrary blasts driving one another back and causing a circulation of the air by concussion 7. It is certain that some winds do leave manifest signs of burning and scortching in Plants But Presterem which is a kind of dark Lightning and hot air without any flame we will put off to the Inquisition of Lightning Helps to Winds namely to Original Winds for of accidental ones we have enquired before To the 11 12 13 14 15 Articles Connexion THose things which have been spoken by the Ancients concerning Winds and their causes are meerly confused and uncertain and for the most part untrue and it is no marvel if they see not clear that look not near They speak as if wind were somewhat else or a thing several from moved air and as if exhalations did generate and make up the whole body of the winds and as if the matter of winds were only a dry and hot exhalation and as if the beginning of the motion of winds were but only a casting down and percussion
sail if there were in the middle of a greater sail there were a kind of a Purse not altogether loose of Canvas but with ribs of wood which should take up the wind in the middle of the sail and bring it into a sharpness 10. The third Fountain or Original of Impulsion is in the place where the wind hits and that is two-fold for from the fore-side of the ship the Impulsion is easier and stronger than on the hinder part and from the upper part of the Mast and sail than from the lower part 11. Neither seems the Industry of man to have been ignorant of this when in a fore-wind their greatest hopes have been in their fore-Masts and in calms they have not been careless in hoysing up of their top sails Neither for the present do we find what may be added to humane Industry in this point unless concerning the first we should set up two or three fore-Masts the first upright and the rest sloping whose sails shall hang downward and as for the second that the fore-sails should be enlarged at the top and made less sharp than they usually are But in both we must take heed of the inconvenience of danger in sinking the ship too much The Motion of Winds in other Engines of Mans Invention 1. THe Motion of wind-mills hath no subtilty at all in it and yet usually it is not well explained nor demonstrated The sails are set right and direct opposite against the wind which bloweth One side of the sail lies to the wind the other side by little and little bends it self and gets it self away from the wind But the turning and continuance of the Motion is always caused by the lower part namely that which is farthest from the wind But the wind over-casting it self against the Engine is contracted and restrained by the four sails and is constrained to take its way in four spaces The wind doth not well endure that compression wherefore of necessity it must as it were with its elbow hit the sides of the sails and so turn them even as little Whirligigs that Children play withal are turned with the fingers 2. If the sails were extended even and equally it would be doubtful which way the inclination would be as in the fall of a staff but when the nearer side which meets with the wind casts the violence of it upon the lower side and from thence into distances so that when the lower side receives the wind like the palm of the hand or the sail of a ships Boat presently there is a turning on that side But this is to be observed that the beginning of the motion proceeds not from the first Impulsion which is direct and a breast but from the lateral Impulsion which is after the compression or straightning of the wind 3. We made some proofs and trials about this for the increasing of this motion as well to be assured we had found the cause as also for use feigning an imitation of this Motion with Paper Sails and the wind of a pair of Bellows We therefore added to the side of the lower sail a fold turned in from the wind that the wind being become a side wind might have somewhat more to beat upon which did no good that fold not so much assisting the percussion of the wind as in consequence hindring the cutting of the air We placed behind the sails at some distance certain obstacles as broad as the Diameter of all the sails that the wind being more compressed might hit the stronger but this did rather hurt than good the repercussion dulling the primary motion Then we made the sails of a double breadth that the wind might be the more restrained and there might be a stronger lateral percussion which at last proved very well so that the Conversion was caused by a far milder gale and did turn a great deal more swiftly Mandate Peradventure this increase of motion might more conveniently be made by eight sails than by four doubling the breadth unless too much weight did over-burthen the motion Which must have trial made of it Mandate Likewise the length of sails doth much conduce to the Motion For in wheelings a slight violence about the circumference is equivalent to a far greater about the Center But then this inconvenience follows that the longer the sails are the more distant they are at the top and the wind is so much the less straightned Peradventure the business would go well if the sails were a little longer and broader towards the top like the outermost end of an Oar. But this we are not sure of Monition If these Experiments be made trial of in Wind-mills care must be taken of the Wind-mill posts and the foundations of it for the more the wind is restrained the more it shakes though it swiftens the motion of the sails the whole frame of the Mill. 4. It is reported that in some Countreys there are Coaches and Waggons which move with the wind but this must be more diligently looked after Mandate Chariots moving by vertue of the wind can be of no use unless it be in open places and plains Besides what will be done if the wind allays It had been better to have thought of easing the Motion of Waggons and Coaches by sails which might be set up and taken down to ease the Oxen or Horses which draw them rather than to make a Motion by wind alone Prognosticks of Winds To the two and thirtieth Article Connexion THe more Divination useth to be polluted by vanity and superstition so much more is the purer part of it to be received and honoured But Natural Divination is sometimes more certain sometimes more slippery and deceitful according to the subject with which it hath to do for if it be of a constant and regular nature it causeth a certain prediction If it be of a variable and irregular nature it may make a casual and deceitful one Yet in a various subject the Prediction will hold true if it be diligently regulated peradventure it may not hint upon the very moments but in the thing it self it will not erre much Likewise for the times of the event and complement some Predictions will hit right enough namely those which are not gathered from the causes but from the thing it self already inchoated but sooner appearing in an apt and fitly disposed matter than in another as we said before in the Topicks concerning this two and thirtieth Article We will now therefore set forth the Prognosticks of winds of necessity intermixing some of rain and fair weather which could not conveniently be separated remitting the full enquiry of them to their proper titles 1. If the Sun appears hollow at its rising it will the very same day yield wind or rain if it appears as it were a little hollow it signifies wind if deeply hollow rain 2. If the Sun rises pale or as we call it waterish it betokens rain if it set so it betokens wind 3.
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