4*0 McHt:orologL'dl Obfervathns made at Vadua. 



auJ vines a little on the elevated gronnd?. If any fufTereJ 

 in the ilat country, the iaufe may be afcribcd to the rain& 

 which took place at the time when they were in bloom. 



If this fog arofe, as I have faid, from exhalations difen- 

 gagcd at the time of earthquakes, it mufl have been dry, and 

 muft have contained abundance of earthy, fiery, mineral par- 

 ticles, with a great deal of inflammable air and eleftrlc fire. 

 7o thcfe may be afcribed the frequent thunder which took, 

 place, efpccially towards the middle of the month. The 

 thunder in general made dreadful ravage, burning houfes 

 and deftroying men and animals. Letters from Hungary 

 Itatc, that, after feveraJ fliocks of an earthquake, the city of 

 Kremnitz was fet on fire by lightning. The fame fate was 

 apprehended for Vicenza on the morning of the 26th, the 

 repeated claps of thunder being fo violent. Five or fix houfes 

 were that day firuck by the lightning, which occafioneJ 

 confidcrable damage. The lightning fell alfo in about a 

 dozen of places in the neighbourhood, particularly in the 

 mountains. 



I fliall here fubjoin a fort of chronicle of the periods when 

 the fun was feen obfcured by fogs; and I arn perfuaded that 

 many other inftances might be found in dilTerent authors. 

 This notice will ferve to banifh every thing marvellous iij 

 regard to the fog of 1783; and to fiicw that nothing hap- 

 pens at preleut which has not happened formerly, and cvci4 

 attended with more difagrceablc circumftanccs. 



Epochs of the Sun being darkened, and of other Jimilar 



Pheneme7ia, 

 Years of 

 Kouie. 



291 The fun darkened ; a comet; fire in the heavens, 



(tlmt is to fay, an Aurora borcalis.) Julius Obfequens. 



de Prodigiis. 



54Z Sun redder than iifual, being of a blood colour. 



♦55 -^ The difk of the fun appeared fnialler. 



554 In the kingdom of Naples, the weather being ferene, 



the 



