COMPLETE

WEATHER

a collection of

GUIDE;

PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS

for

PROGNOSTICATING THE WEATHER;

DRAWN FROM PLANTS, ANIMALS, INANIMATE BODIES, AND ALSO BY MEANS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS:

including

THE SHEPHERD OF BANBURY'S

Rules,

EXPLAINED ON PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES.

with

AN APPENDIX

OF MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS ON METEOROLOGY,

a curious

BOTANICAL CLOCK,

&c. &c. &c.

BY JOSEPH TAYLOR,

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GALE AND FENNER,

Paternoster Row;

Sold also by John Harding, St. James's Street; and John Martin, Holles Street, Cavendish Square.

1816.

- PHG 4058, 16 ke 16433

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1863, July 6. Gift of Lowell, Prof. James L. (Class of 1838).

Entered at Stationers' Hall,

OBSERVATIONS, BY WHICH TO JUDGE OF

THE CHANGES OF THE WEATHER, DEDU.

CED FROM THE APPEARANCES OF NATURE

SECTION I.

Changes of weather indicat-

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ibid.

cated by animals

Preliminary Observations

Common and familiar signs exhibited by

animals, which indicate approaching

changes of weather

SECTION III. Changes of weather, indi-

cated from the appearances of the at-

mosphere, the earth, seasons, &c.

§ 1. Changes indicated by clouds

2. The nature of the four principal winds,

and their effects.

3. Other signs announcing changes of the

weather, from the appearance of the

earth, &c.

4. Indications afforded by an attentive

observance of the seasons

5. Observations on the moon's influence

on the weather

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Conjectures on the periods of rain

Influence of the moon in regard to ex-

traordinary years

Rules by Lord Bacon, for prognosticat-

ing the weather from the appearance

OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHANGES OF THE

WEATHER, INDICATED BY MEANS OF THE

BAROMETER, AND OTHER PHILOSOPHI-

CAL INSTRUMENTS

SECTION I. Of the barometer

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II. Of the hygrometer