An essay on the weather; with remarks on the shepherd of Banbury's rules for judging of it's [!] changes; and directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lightening. Intended chiefly for the use of husbandmen / By John Mills.

  • Mills, John, -1784?
Date:
1773
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Credit: An essay on the weather; with remarks on the shepherd of Banbury's rules for judging of it's [!] changes; and directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lightening. Intended chiefly for the use of husbandmen / By John Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i NOD. Bx, ¥ Insects: prognoftics of the weather taken from them - aoe : JourNAL OF THE WEATHER. Abftract and refult of one kept at Southwick in Northamptonfhire, 64, 67. Hints for farther improvement in a Journal of the weather, 99. L Lamps, by their burning, foretell rain, 47. Licurenine, Its refemblance to eleétrical fire, 196 How drawn from the clouds, 20; and conduéted by metals, ibid. Why particularly apt to damage tall trees and lofty buildings, 21. Method of guarding againft it, 22, 26. LINNZUS, his excellent advice to hufbandmen rela- tive to the feafons moft proper for their works, 98, M Men, why lefs quick than animals in their fenfations of the weather, 26. Merats, of all kinds, are good conduétors of light- “ening, 21. Miners foretell the changes of the weather, 49, 92. Mist, what, 7, 12. Prognoftics of the weather taken from it, 40. — Mocx-Suns and Mock-Moons, the caufe of, 33. Prog- noftics of the weather taken from’ them, ibid. Moon (the) prognoftics of the weather taken from, 31, “35,41. From a circle about it, 33; and from mock- moons, ibid. Mounrains, the fummits of, always cold, and why, even in the hotteft countries, 16. Prognoftics of the weather taken from clouds on their tops, 37. éP PLINY, his obfervations on the weather, 7. R Rain. Mifling rain, what, and how formed, 14. Heavy