Show sig sigm n of wind rather father Nava dc ii fit lio file seventeenth century discovered certain infallible signs of aind w ind one never failing token was the running and fluttering about of little insects accard tile the bil w and the more lest iest less they are the higher 1 the wind and by observing what place 11 ce came from manners marinero mariners ma shall know if it will be fair another sign according to his reverence is vi t licit hen piss pigs begin to run and tumble about a ship in 1 a I calm balm baumgarten Baumgart cn in his travels Trav cla says y 6 ho he was with a pilot who by putting hissinger hia his finger in the mouth and then holding it up prognosticated to us that we should have wind very sr speedily vh which ich indeed proved accordingly all that tile ho modern sailor can call do by wetting his finger and lif lifting ting it is to fed if there be any movement in tho the air tile the digit lias has long ceased to be a sibyl formerly the brittany fisher fishermen meu raked raised the wind at will by procuring tho the dust swept out of a certain church and blosiu blowing el it in the direction from which they desired the breeze to come sardinian sailors also possessed the same useful art kopro to procure a fair wind they had nothing to do but to sweep a chapel after mass and blow the dust of it after departing ships london telegraph |