[S]ometimes it may happen that ſuch a Cloud may appear ſeveral Mornings and Evenings, and we may not feel the effects of it, or but very little; yet we always provide againſt it; for a North never comes without ſuch a foreboding Cloud. But if the VVinds also vvhiffle about to the South, with fair flattering VVeather, it never fails.

one degree below kings

Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery.

Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.