10 th S. I. JUNE 4, 1904.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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LOXDOX, SATURDAY, JUNE It, 190U.
CONTENTS. -No. 23.
NOTES : The Moon and the Weather, 441 Inscriptions at Santa Cruz, Tenerife. 442 Portugalete : Fontarrabia, 443 Well-known Epitaph, 444 Russian Prediction Library of Madame de Pompadour, 445 William III. crowned in Ireland- The London Season Sir H. M. Stanley's Natio- nality Napoleon's Power of Awaking Natalese, 446 Vanishing London Mayor's Seal for Confirmation Birth of Euripides, 447.
QUERIES : Paste " Purple patch " Archbishop Wil- liams, 447 Mary Shakespere Rev. Dr. D'Oyly "The better the day the better the deed " Lines attributed to Wordsworth Storming of Fort Moro Daniel Archer Inscriptions on Public Buildings Guncaster Latin for "Roping" a Horse Bnglith Channel Hertford Borough Seal France and Civilization, 448 Gayus Dyxon Was Kean a Jew? " Tymber* of Ermine " Tituladoes May Monument " Hen-hussey" : "Whip-stitch": " Wood- toter" Anacharsis Tynte Book-plate, 449.
REPLIES : Martyrdom of St. Thomas, 450 Easter Day in 1512, 452 -Birds' Eggs Prescriptions, 453 " Scole Inn," Norfolk The "Ship" at Greenwich, 454 Inscriptions at Orotava Indian Sport Iberian Inscriptions in Hibernia Proverbs in the Waverley Novels Brazen Bijou, 455
- ' Send " of the Sea Scotch Words and English Commen-
tatorsTea as a Meal "Chop-dollar" Cleaning Copper Coins Bradley, co. Southampton, 456 Topography of Ancient London Yeoman of the Crown Port Arthur Number Superstition " Painted and popped "Thieves' Slang: "Joe Gurr" A Sexton's Tombstone William Willie, 457 Cosaa de Espafia 'The Children of the Chapel,' 458 Harepath Raleigh's Head, 459.
NOTES ON BOOKS : Lord's 'Memoir of John Kay' Maclean's 'Literature of the Highland*' Nicholson's Keltic Researches ' ' Origines Alphabetic*.'
Notices to Correspondents.
THE MOON AND THE WEATHER.
(See ante, p. 347.)
YOUR courteous insertion of my note has called my attention again to Dr. Adam Clarke's table, and it seems to me it ought to be made easily available for reference by insertion in your columns. The last change of the moon was on 7 May at 11.50 noon, and a coincidence the weather up to 10 May has been at least " unsettled."
If this table be really based on correct observation, it should be preserved as valu- able in itself ; if a mere fancy, it is none the less curious and worth preservation. I therefore supply a copy, and of the quaint verses appended.
OBSERVATIOXS ON THE WEATHER (The Tabula Eudichemonica)
or the
fair and foul Weather Prognosticator being a Table for fprtelling the Weather through
all the Lunations of each year for ever. This table, and the accompanying remarks, are the result of many years actual observation ; the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the Sun and Moon in their several positions respecting the earth ; and will by simple inspection show the observer what kind of weather will most probably follow the entrance of the moon
into any of her quarters and that so near the truth
as to be seldom or never found to fail.
Moon.
-,
lime of change.
Between mid- night and 2 in the morn- ing
Between 2 and 4 morn.
Between 4 and 6 morn.
Between 6 and 8 morn.
Between 8 and 10 morn. ...
Between 10 and 12
At 12 o'clock at noon to 2 P.M.
Afternoon be- tween 2 and 4
Between 4 and 6
Between 6 and
In Summer,
Fair
Cold, with fre- quent showers
Rain
Wind and rain...
Changeable Frequent showers
In Winter.
Hard frost unless the wind be S. orW.
Rain.
Stormy.
Cold rain if wind
W. ; Snow if E. Cold and high
wind.
Very rainy ... Snow or rain.
Changeable ... Fair and mild.
Fair
Fair if wind N.W. ; Rainy if S. or S.W. ...
Between 8 and
10 ... Between 10 :
midnt. . Fair
Ditto
Fair.
Fair and frosty if wind N. or N.E. ; Rain or Snow if S. or S.W.
Ditto.
Fair and frosty.
OBSERVATIONS.
1. The nearer the time of the moon's change, first quarter, full, and last quarter, are to midnight the fairer will the weather be during the seven days following.
2. The space for this calculation occupies from ten at night till two next morning.
3. The nearer to mid-day or noon, these phases of the moon happen, the more foul or wet, the weather may be expected during the next seven days.
4. The space for this calculation occupies from ten in the forenoon to two in the afternoon. These observations refer principally to Summer, though they affect Spring and Autumn nearly in the same ratio.
5. The Moon's Change, First Quarter, Full, and Last Quarter, happening during six of the after- noon hours, i.e. from four to ten, may be followed by fair weather : but this is mostly dependent on the wind, as it is noted in the table.
6. Though the weather, from a variety of irregular causes is more uncertain in the latter part of Autumn, the whole of Winter, and the beginning of Spring ; yet in the main, the above observations will apply to those periods also.
7. To prognosticate correctly, especially in those cases where the wind is concerned, the observer should be within sight of a good vane, where the four cardinal points of the heavens are correctly placed. With this precaution he will scarcely ever be deceived in depending on the table.
8. It need scarcely be added that to know the exact time of the Moon's changes, Quarters, &c. a
correct almanack such as the 'Nautical' must
be procured.
With this table and a good barometer, to what a certainty may we arrive in prognostications con- cerning the weather ! By these the prudent man, forseeing the evil, will hide himself, and will feel the weight of the proverb, "Make hay while the
