A Voyage to North-America : Undertaken By Command of the Present King of France ; Containing the Geographical Description And Natural History of Canada And Louisiana ; With the Customs, Manners, Trade And Religion of the Inhabitants ; a Description of the
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That day you will fee the fky very turbulent ; you will obferve the fun more red than at other times ; you will perceive a dead calm, and the hills clear of all thofe clouds and mifts which ufually hover about them. In the clefts of the earth, and in the wells, you hear a hollow rumbling found like the ruftiing of a great wind. At night the ftars feem much larger than ufua), and furrounded with a fort of burs ; the North-weft (ley has a black and menacing look ; the Tea emits a ftrong fmell, an...d rifes into vaft waves, often without any wind j the wind itfelf now forfake*^ its ufual fteady Eafterly ftream, and fhitts about to the Weft ; from whence it fometimes blows with inter.-niftions violently and irregularly for about two hours at a time. You have the fame figns at T 2 th^" 292 A C C O U N T OF THJc the full of the moon ; the moon herfelf is furrounded uith a great bur, and fometimes the fun has the fame ap- pearance. Thefe prognoftics were taught by the Indians ; »nd in general one may obferve, that ignorant country people and barbarous nations, are better obfervers of timei and feafons, and draw better rules from them, than more civilized and reafoning people, for they rely more upon experience than theories, they are more careful of tradi- tionary obfervations, and living more in the open air at all times, and not fo occupied but they have leifure to ob- ferve every change, though minute, in that element, they come to have great ireafures of ufeful matter, though, as it might be expected, mixed with many fuperflitious and idle notions as to the caufes.
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