Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3: containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal SocietyRoyal Society (Great Britain)
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3: containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Natural history; Science -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
19. Cloudy, about 10. _a. m._ some Drops.
20. Cloudy between 8. and 10. _a. m._ a Shower; first violent, after
more moderate, till it ended in a kind of Mist; it lasted in all about
1½ Hour; the Day after clear, 21, and 22. clear.
23. In the Afternoon cloudy; about 6. _p. m._ some Drops; the Night
after, a Shower, not considerable.
24. Hot, about 10. _p. m._ a little Shower.
25. Clear; 26. in the Night some little Rain.
27. Held up; 28. at 9. _p. m._ a short Shower.
29. At 5. _a. m._ Rain till near 7. a little past 7. till 9. after
cloudy.
30. Cloudy; the Night after some Rain.
31. About 8. _a. m._ Rain for ½ Hour; from 9. till 12. it rained for
the most part very violently; before 1. another Shower for ½ Hour; from
a little after 2. till 5. with very great Thunder.
One Funeral on the 25th after but Three Days Sickness, of which I can
give no account.
The beginning of this Month, we had an extraordinary Number of Toads,
which after some time were not to be seen.
The 14th we had wing'd Ants, as before.
24. Was the first Corn, the Seed-time having been the middle of _March_.
_June, 1687._
1. About 4. _a. m._ Rain for an Hour; past 1. _p. m._ for ½ Hour; the
rest cloudy and misty.
2. From 2. _a. m._ till 5. continual Rain, 'tis said there was some
before; from 9. _a. m._ till ½ Hour past 6. _p. m._ continual Rain,
sometimes very fierce; from ½ Hour past 9 at Night, Rain till past 10.
3. From 6. to a little past 7. _a. m._ a very gentle Rain, from thence
till 1. _p. m._ most commonly very fierce; thence for a little while
more moderate; but it rain'd hard again till 6. _p. m._ then it drop'd
but slowly, and so continued till about 7. in the Night some little
Rain.
4. About 8. _a. m._ some Drops, thence clear.
6, And 7. clear, except some few flying Clouds.
8. After 3. _a. m._ gentle Rain for near an Hour; then cloudy and some
Drops, after 10. _p. m._ a Shower.
9. At 5. _a. m._ a gentle Shower, lasted till past 7. thence a very
violent Rain till almost 9. some Drops after that; about 3. _p. m._ it
began and rain'd till past 10. somewhat moderately.
10. Clear and hot.
11. Cloudy; about 8. _p. m._ a few Drops.
12. From about 2. _a. m._ till near 5. Rain, but not violent; a little
before 6. a furious Storm of Rain, but little Wind; it lasted till ½
Hour past 7. about 3. _p. m._ a moderate Rain, till a little past 4.
and from thence to 6. somewhat more than a Mist; the Night after it
rained a little.
13. Cloudy; in the Afternoon it drop'd a little.
14. About 8. _a. m._ a few Drops.
15. Somewhat cloudy.
16. Extream hot; toward Night cloudy; about 5. _p. m._ a violent Shower
for ½ Hour; from a little before 8. till past 10. it rained continually.
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