296 Particulars of the Sale of Tart of 



Mr. Tilloch. 



DEAR SIR, 



As it is the wish of philosophers to collect every thing" 

 that has occurred relative to the stones which, at different 

 periods, have fallen on our globe, I send you the following 

 extract from the third volume* of the poet Cowper's cor* 

 respondence, as published by his learned friend Mr. Hay- 

 ley, June IS, 1783. 



66 The fogs I mentioned in my last still continue; 

 though, till yesterday, the earth was as dry as intense 

 heat could make it. The sun continues to rise and set 

 without his rays, and hardly shines at noon even in a 

 cloudless sky. At eleven last night the moon was a dull 

 red j she was nearly at her highest elevation, and had the 

 colour of heated brick. She would naturally, I know, 

 have such an appearance looking through a misty atmo- 

 sphere ; but that such an atmosphere should obtain for so 

 long a time, and in a country where it has not happened 

 in my remembrance, even in winter,- is rather remarkable. 

 We have had more thunder storms than have consisted 

 well with the peace of the fearful maidens in Olney, 

 though not so many as have happened in places at no great 

 distance, nor so violent. Yesterday morning, however, 

 at seven o'clock, two fire-balls burst either on the steeple 

 or close to it. William Andrews saw them meet at that 

 point, and immediately after saw such a smoke issue from 

 the apertures in the steeple, as soon rendered it invisible : 

 the noise of the explosion surpassed all the noises I ever 

 heard : you would have thought that a thousand sledge 

 hammers were battering great stones to powder, all in the- 

 same instant. " Yours, &c. J. S. S. 



LI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



PARTICULARS OP THE SALE OF FART OF HIS MAJESTY'S 

 FLOCK OF SPANISH SHEEP, 



On the 1 5th Day of August 1S04. 



It ')■■ a singular circumstance, considering the great length 

 of time that fine or broad woollen cloths have been in use 

 in Europe, that the wool from a particular breed of sheep, 

 kept only in Spain, where there are exceedingly large flocks 



* Patrc 178. In a letter to the P*ev. John Newton. 



of 



