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, Agues, &c. What Putrefactions or other Changes are produced in other Bodies; as the sweating of Marble, the burning blue of a Candle, the blasting of Trees and Corn; the unusal Sprouting, Growth, or Decay of any Plants or Vegetables; the Putrefaction of Bodies not usual; the Plenty or Scarcity of Insects; of several Fruits, Grains, Flowers, Roots, Cattel, Fishes, Birds, any thing notable of that Kind. What Conveniences or Inconveniences may happen in the Year, in any kind, as by Floods, Droughts, violent Showers, &c. What Nights produce Dews and Hoar-Frosts, and what not?

"7.What Thunders and Lightnings happen, and what Effects they produce; as souring Beer or Ale, turning Milk, killing Silkworms, &c?

"Any thing extraordinary in the Tides; as double Tides, later or earlier, greater or less Tides than ordinary, rising or drying of Springs, Comets or unusual Apparitions, new Stars, Ignes fatui or shining Exhalations, or the like.

"These should all or most of them be diligently observed and registred by some one, that is always conversant in or near the same Place.

"Now that these, and some others, hereafter to be mentioned, may be registred so as to be most convenient for the making of Comparisons, requisite for the raising Axioms, whereby the Cause or Laws of Weather may be found out; it will be desireable to order them so, that the Scheme of a whole Month may at one View be presented to the Eye: And this may conveniently be done on the Pages of a Book in Folio, allowing fifteen Days for one side, and fifteen for the other. Let each of those Pages be divided into nine Columns, and distinguished by 5