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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    ii ENDER xs pre-judgment of the weather, 79, 92,94. A good Journal of the weather fill much wanted; with hints for improving future ones, 99.’ Specimen of one kept ~ at Southwick, 64, 67 ; and of one kept at Berne in Switzerland, 108... SS es See Weatuer-Doc, or WeaTHER-EYE, what, $4. , Wuirtiwinps and WHIRLPOOLS, the effects of 57. Winwos (the) carry off much water, and how, 6.» Signs. of windy-weather, 33. Wind, what, 47. Caufes of the ftated winds in this ifland, 48. Caufe of the fre- quency of winds from the fea, ibid, Prognoftics from | - winds, 47, 59. Wefterly winds their caufe, 48 ; why generally rainy in England, 69. Northerly winds, a fign of, 7 ; and their caufe, 55. Eafterly winds, their general caufe, ibid ; and wherein different in different parts of this ifland, 69. Southerly winds, a fign of, 7+ and their caufe, 76. Winds frequently different in different regions of the air, 54, 75. Proof that the weft and fouth-weft winds are much. more frequent in this country, than the eaft and north-eaft, 6z. The winds the fole caufe of fair or rainy weather, 76: The effect of high winds on the barometer, 81. Wire, to condué lightening, 22: . | WORLIDGE (Mk.) his obfervations on the weathers 37,45 ; on the winds, 72 ; on the rainbow; 73 3 om the feafons, 102. ELLEN ras os oe%