WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
Mr Saxby in a letter to a London journal, says : —"I beg leave to state, with regard to ISG9, that at seven a.m. on October 5, the moon will bo at the part of her orbit which is nearest to the earth. Her attraction will, therefore, be at its maximum force. At noon of the same clay the moon will be on the earth's equator, a circumstance which never occurs without marked atmospheric disturbance; at two p.m. of the same day lines drawn from the earth's centre would cut the suu and moon in the same arc of right ascension (the moon's attraction and the sun's attraction will therefore be acting in the same direction) ; in other words the new moon will be on the earth's equator when in perigee, and nothing more threatening can, I say, occur without miracle. (The earth, it is true, will not he in perihelion by some sixteen or seventeen seconds of semi-diameter.) With your permission, I will, during September next, for the safety of mariners, briefly remind your readers of this warning. In the meanwhile there will be time for the repairs of unsafe sea w r alls, and for the circulation of this notice, by means of your farreaching voice, through the wide world."
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 524, 1 July 1869, Page 3
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213WEATHER PREDICTIONS. Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 524, 1 July 1869, Page 3
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