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Section III. 

 Of the Haze of the Tear 1783. 



This year is remarkable for feveral extiaor-iinary phoenomena 

 of which this haze was the moft univerfal. it is but flightly men- 

 tioned by Englifh meteorologifts*, but frequently by thofe on the 

 continent, by whom it has been varioufly accounted for. The fads 

 that relate to it, or appear to me to do fo, are the following : 



\°. In the months of February and March of tha't year hap- 

 pened the great earthquakes of Calabria, fo minutely and exadlly 

 traced and defcribed by Sir William Hamilton. Phil. Tranf. 

 1783, p. 170, &c. 



2°. During this earthquake the incumbent atmofphere was 

 incumbered and obfcured by clouds to an uncommon degree. 24 

 Roz. Journ. p. 5. 



30. On the 17th and i8th of the fubfequent month of June a 

 dark reddifh haze that obfcured the light of the fun was obferved 

 in many parts of Europe, even in high northern latitudes as 

 England and Sweden, Phil. Tranf. 1784. p. 285, 418, and 2+ 

 Roz. p. 8 and 405. 



• Phil. Tranf. 1784. 



