 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 pages
...memory of man. By my journal I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23 to July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to...any alteration in the air. The sun at noon looked as black as a clouded moon, and shed a rustcoloured, ferruginous light on the ground and floors of rooms,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 1196 pages
...Daines Barrington), describes the "amazing and portentous phenomena" observed in the summer of 1783. " The sun at noon looked as blank as a clouded moon,...shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground, particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. The country people began to look 1 I have... | |
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July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured, ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms ; but... 
