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Title: The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience

Author: John Claridge

Release Date: January 4, 2008 [EBook #24163]

Language: English

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THE

SHEPHERD

OF

BANBURY'S RULES

To judge of the

CHANGES of the WEATHER,

Grounded on Forty Years' EXPERIENCE;

By which you may know

The WEATHER for several Days to come,
and in some Cases for Months.

To which is added

A Rational ACCOUNT of the CAUSES of
such Alterations, the Nature of Wind,
Rain, Snow, &c.

By _JOHN CLARIDGE_, Shepherd.

A NEW EDITION, Corrected.

_L O N D O N_:
Printed for
THOMAS HURST, EDWARD CHANCE, & Co.,
65, _St. Paul's Church-Yard._
1827.

J. M'Creery, Tooks Court,
Chancery Lane, London.

INTRODUCTION.

AS we very justly esteem it a fit Tribute of Admiration to adorn
natural Curiosities, by setting them as richly and as advantageously as
art can direct, so the following Observations of the Shepherd of
_Banbury_ have appeared to me worthy of being presented to the Eye of
the Public, with all the Lustre that it was in my Power to give them.
It is one thing to observe, and another to reason upon Observations,
and it very rarely happens that both can be taken into the Compass of
one Man's Life. We ought therefore to consider it as a very lucky
Incident, when the Observations of another Man, upon whom we can
depend, fall into our Hands, and enable us to add natural Experience to
the Notions derived to us from Books of Philosophy.

THERE is a Degree of Pedantry in Desarts as well as Colleges. Men who
derive their Knowledge entirely from Experience are apt to despise what
they call Book Learning, and Men