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, ...S. Hooper, 1773 - 127 من الصفحات 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. |
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الصفحة 67 - Clothes white and Maids Dun. When April blows his Horn It's good both for Hay and Corn. An April Flood Carries away the Frog and her Brood. A cold May and a windy Makes a full Barn and a Findy.
الصفحة 9 - The lightning will not leave the rod (a good conductor) to pass into the wall (a bad conductor) through those staples. It would rather, if any were in the wall, pass out of it into the rod to get more readily by that conductor into the earth.
الصفحة 25 - If you see a cloud rise against the wind, or side wind, when that cloud comes up to you, the wind will blow the same way the •cloud came.
الصفحة 13 - And drags her eggs along the narrow tracks: At either horn the rainbow drinks the flood: Huge flocks of rising rooks forsake their food, And, crying, seek the shelter of the wood.
الصفحة 54 - ... is last of all. In this case, all the water moves indeed towards the gate, but the successive times of beginning motion are the contrary way, viz., from the gate backwards to the head of the canal.
الصفحة 69 - Mark well the flow'ring almonds in the wood: If od'rous blooms the bearing branches load, The glebe will answer to the sylvan reign; Great heats will follow, and large crops of grain.
الصفحة 53 - NE storm, I imagined it must have begun rather sooner in places farther to the NorthEastward than it did at Philadelphia. I therefore mentioned it in a letter to my brother, who lived at Boston; and he informed me the...
الصفحة 11 - ... an interrupted course through the air of the room and the bedding, when it can go through a continued better conductor the wall. But where it can be had, a...
الصفحة 7 - ... freely, they are often damaged. Buildings that have their roofs covered with lead, or other metal, and spouts of metal continued from the roof into the ground to carry off the water, are never hurt by lightning, as, whenever it falls on such a building, it passes in the metals and not in the walls.
الصفحة 25 - North to South with a quiet Wind without Rain; but returns to the North with a strong Wind and Rain. The strongest Winds are when it turns from South to North by West.