Nov 1870
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1870natur...3r..48j&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 3, Issue 55, pp. 48 (1870).
Physics
Scientific paper
THERE appears to be in Wales a remnant of a tradition connected with the Milky Way. During a short stay in Caermarthenshire, an old man, well read in local history, and who is apparently the oracle of the neighbourhood of Llangadock, directed my attention one evening to the Milky Way, remarking at the time ``we shall have fair weather to-morrow, as you see it is in the south,'' meaning that the wind will blow from that quarter. My friend supported this extraordinary statement by appealing to the Welsh word ``Heol y Gwynt,'' the road or way of the wind. Can any of your readers inform me whether this belt of stars is the subject of a fable in Britain, or how it came to be connected with foretelling the weather? The Scandinavians call it the ``Road of Winter'' possibly ``Heol y Gwynt'' may be traced to northern influence, but, in the absence of facts I will not commit myself to this explanation.
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