If the wind bo north, north-west, or east, then veer to the north-east, remain there two or three days without rain, and then veer to the south without rain; and if thence it change quickly, though perhaps with a little rain, to the nurth-east, and remain there-such fine weather will last occasionally for two months.

3368. If there be dry weather with a weak south wind for five, six, or seven days, it having previously blown strongly from the same quarter

3369. If spiders, in spinning their webs, make the terminating filaments long, we may, in proportion to their length, conclude that the weather will be serene, and continue so for ten or twelve days.

3370. If there are no falling stars to be seen on a bright summers evening you may look for fine weather.

3371. If there be a change from continued stormy or wet to clear and dry weather, at the time of new or full moon, or a short time before or after, and so remain until the second day of the new or fill moon, it is likely to re* main fine til the following quarter; and if it change not then, or only for a very short time, it usually lasts until the following new or full moon; and if it does not change then, or only for a very short time, it is likely to continue fine and dry for four or five weeks.

3372 If there be a change of weather at the time of the quarters, etc. (under the same circumstances as in No. 5), it will probably last for some time.

3373. Spiders generally alter their webs once in 24 hours: if they do this between six and seven in the evening, there will be a fine night; if they alter their web in the morning, a fine day: if they work during rain, expect fine weather; and the more active and busy the spider is, the finer will be the weather.

3374. If near the full moon there be a general mist before sunrise; or

3375 If there be a sheep-sky, or white clouds driving to the north-west, it will be fine for some days. 3376. FOR FINE WEATHER OF SHORTER DURATION.

3377. If at sunrise many clouds are seen in the west, and then disappear.

3378. If, before sunrise, the fields be covered with a mist.

3379. If the clouds at sunrise fly to the west.

3380. If at sunrise the sun be surrounded by an iris, or circle of white clouds.

3381. If there be red clouds in the west at sunset, it Will be fine; if they have a tint of purple, it will be very fine; or if red, bordered with black in the south-east,

3382. If there be a ring or halo round the sun in bad weather.

3383. If the full moon rise clear.

3384. If there be clouds in the east in the evening.

3385. If the wind change from south-east, south, or south-west, through the west to the north, without storm or rain.

3386. If there be a change of damp air into cloudy patches, vhich get thinner

3387. If clouds at the same height drive up with the wind, and gradually become thinner, and descend.

3588. If a layer of thin clouds drive up from the north-west under other higher clouds driving more south.

3389. If many gnats are seen in spring, expect a warm autumn.

3390. It' gnats fly in compact bodies in the beams of the setting sun, there will be fine weather.

3391. If spiders work in the morning early at their webs, there will be a fine day.

3392. If spider's webs (gossamer) fly in the autumn with a south wind expect an east wind and fine weather.

3393. If bats flutter and beetles fly about, there will be a fine morrow.

3394. If there be lightning without thunder, after a clear day, there will be a continuance of fair weather.

3395. If the mists vanish rapidly, and do not settle upon the hills.

3396. If a north wind remain steady for two or three days.

3397. If it rain before sunrise, there will be a fine afternoon.

3398. If a white mist, or dew, form in the evening near a river, and spread over the adjoining land, there will be fine weather.

3399. If in the morning a mist rise from over low lands, it will be fine that day.

3400. If owls scream during foul weather, it will change to fair.

3401. If storks and cranes fly high and steadily.

3402. If there be a rainbow during coninued wet weather, the rain is passing from us.

3403. If a rainbow disappear suddenly, it will be fair.

3404. If a leech be kept in a glass jar, about three-parts filled with water, and placed in a northern aspect, its motions will denote changes in the weather. Thus, if the leech lie curled up at the bottom of the jar, the weather will be fine or frosty; if it be agitated and rise to the surface of the water there will be rain, wind, or snow: if it be much agitated, and creep entirely out of the water, expect thunder. During heavy storms, leeches often die in great numbers. 3405. FOR CONTINUED RAINY

AND SHOWERY WEATHER.

340G. If there be within four, five, or six days, two or three changes of the wind from the north through the west to the south, without much rain and wind, and thence again through the west to the north with rain and wind, expect continued showery weather.

3407. If the north-west or north wind, during three, four, or more days, blow, with rain and wind, or snow, in the winter, and then pass through the west to the south, expect continued rain and showers.

3408. If the garden spiders break and destroy their webs, and creep away.

3409. If the air be unusually clear during rain, or a very heavy sky, provided the moon be not above the horizon.

3410. If continued fine weather change to wet by full or new moon, and remain till the second day, this bad weather will probably last until the next quarter, and not change then, or only slightly, till the next new or full moon; when, if it change not, this bad weather will very probably continue four or five weeks.

3411. If there be change of continued fine weather, etc, by the quarters, etc. (under the same circumstances as in 3410), the bad weather may be expected to last some time.