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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    rain, what, and how formed, 15, 17: Prognoftics of of rain; from the furface. of the earth, 7; from ve- getables, 26; from animals, 27, 28. Signs of rain from various other caufes, 30, 33, 35, 37540, 43, 40 M. de la Hire’s account of rain, 76. Why mott fre- quent in lofty places, 34. Rainspow (the) how formed, 30. When thought to portend wind, and when rain, 73. Rareracrion (the effect of) on water, 6; and on the atmofphere, 44, 47, 50. . Rivers, prognoftics of the weather taken from, 45. ras) Sza (the) caufe‘aad nature of winds from, 48, 69. Szasons (the) prognoftics taken from, 100. SHepHerp (the) of Banbury. Sez Bansury. Uncom- mon advantages of fhepherds for making obfervations on the weather, 3. Sky (the) prognoftics taken from, 35. Snow, on mountains, fhews to what height water rifes in \ frequently, formed, 16, 17. Sounps, prognoftics of the weather taken from, 45. _ Soutuwick, in Northamptonfhire, refult of a Journal] of the weather kept at, 64, 67. Wnerein different from fome of the Shepherd of Banbury’s rules, 40, 61. Srerines, the origin of, 9. Srars (the) prognoflics. of the weather taken from, 39> 79: ; Storms, figns of, 32, 34, 36, 44, 46, 49, 55% Frequently arife from forefts, 42. Their progrefs, 86. Their caufes, 88. Sun (the) prognoftics of the weather taken from, 30, 32. From a circle about it, 33; and from what are called mock-funs, ibid. 4h Tur rMOMETER (the) obfervations on, 77. It’s ufe in judging of the weather, 93.