T. G. S.
Edinburgh.
Thomas Wright of Durham (Vol. viii., p. 218.).—It may interest Mr. De Morgan to be referred to a manuscript in the British Museum, marked "Additional, 15,627.," which he will find to be one of the original "note-books," if not the very note-book itself, from which the notice of the life of Thomas Wright was compiled for the Gentleman's Magazine. It is, in fact, an autobiography by Wright, written in the form of a journal; and although containing entries as late as the year 1780, it ceases to be continuous with the year 1748, and has no entries at all between that year and 1756. This break in the journal sufficiently accounts for the deficiency in the biography given by the Gentleman's Magazine.
I may mention, also, that the Additional MS. 15,628. contains Wright's unpublished collections relative to British, Roman, and Saxon antiquities in England.
E. A. Bond.
Weather Predictions (Vol. viii., p. 218. &c.).—The following is a Worcestershire saying:
"When Bredon Hill puts on his hat,
Ye men of the vale, beware of that."
Similar to this is a saying I have heard in the northern part of Northumberland:
"When Cheevyut (i. e. the Cheviot Hills) ye see put on his cap,