Decanting liquor, 274 spirting, 274 Depression of spirits, 145 Descent in a diving bell painful, 146 Deserts hot and dazzling, 405 DEW deleterious, 220 differs from rain, 226 distilled after a hot day, 219 especially if the wind is westerly, 218 unequally, 207 in open places, 204 in valleys and hollows, 207 on clothes, 211 cultivated lands, 210 grass, 209 leaves, &c., 208 none beneath a tree, 204, 205 a flower awning, 205 hedge or wall, 205 none in a cloudy night, 204 in a windy night, 207 especially if easterly, 218 none on stones, cloth, 208 deserts, gravel, metal, rocks, wool, 209 Dew-drops round, 223 flattened, 223 roll on cabbages, 223 roses, 224 Digging promotes warmth, 161 Digestion, 91 Dinner covers, 202 Dirt warm, 93 Distant bells heard, 413 clocks, 151 objects appear small, 381, 382 sight, 390 spectacles for, 391 Distance makes things invisible, 384 Distilled vinegar, 426 Divers suffer pain, 255 Diving bell, 146 Doors swell and shrink, 151 Dogs uneasy in wet weather, 147 Dough, 274 set before a fire to rise, 276 Double concave glasses, 389 convex glasses, 391 Draining lands promote warmth, 160 DRAUGHT at a door, 314 key-hole, 314 window, 315 slack, 63, 64, 69 Dreams, 424 foolish things, 424 Drops of rain roll on dust, 155 Drowned men restored, 101 Drums, 411 DRY WOOD for kindling, 44 burns best, 107 snaps about, 107 Dryest months, 328 Dublin, rain of, 340 Duck dry in water, 224 Dunghills hot, 277 Dusty shoes hot, 194 Dyeing changes a colour, 401 Ear-trumpets, 415 EARTH, bad conductor, 181 cool in summer, 182 cracks by frost, 357 crumbles in spring, 358 warm in whiter, 131 Earth-fog, 221 Earthen tea-pots, 197, 198 set on a hob to draw, 198 East wind cold, 302 dry, 303 prevents dew, 218 Eat more in cold, 90 less in warm weather, 91 Echo, 416 Echoes, two or more, 418 EFFERVESCENCE, 269 soon subsides, 275 Egg cracked when boiled, 239 tested, 178, 239 ELECTRICITY affects the clouds, 131, 133 excited by friction, 29 felt at the elbow joints, 27, 29 hot, 3 of clouds, 4 positive & negative, 16 ENGLAND grows warmer and warmer, 160 WINDS of, 300 east dry, 302 morning at watering places, 310 most prevalent, 300 north cold, 312 north-east dry, 305 south rainy, 303 warm, 303 south-west rainy, 304 west rainy, 304 when highest, 301 lowest, 301 _See March wind._ Epsom salts, 426