and Masses of Meteoric Iron, &c. 17 
1586, 3rd December. At Verden in Hanover, and other 
parts, a great quantity of a blood-red and blackish substance, 
by which a plank was burnt, attended by a thunder-storm: 
(meteors and reports). 
1618, in the second half of August. A fall of large stones 
attended by a fiery meteor, and what is called a rain of blood, 
in Styria. 
1623, 12th August. Rain of a blood-colour at Strasburg, 
eppemuent to the appearance of a thick red-smoke-coloured 
cloud. 
1637, 6th December. From seven o’clock in the evening 
till two on the following day, a great fall of black dust in the 
Gulf of Volo, in the Archipelago, and near Acra in Syria. 
1638. Red rain near Tournay. 
? 1642, in June. At Magdeburg, Lohburg, &c., large lumps 
of sulphur. 
1643, in January. Rain called a rain of blood, at Vaihin- 
gen and Weinsberg. 
1645, between the 23d and 24th January. Red rain near 
Herzogenbusch. 
1646, 6th October. At Brussels. 
1652, in May. Between Siena and Rome, a transparent, 
slimy, and adhesive substance, in the place where a very bright 
meteor had been seen to fall. 
? 1665, 23rd March. Near Laucha, not far from Naum- 
burg, a substance like dark blue silk threads, in great quan- 
tity. 
? 1665, 19th May. In Norway, with an uncommon thun- 
der-storm (or a meteor mistaken for such), sulphureous dust. 
1678, 19th March. Red snow near Genoa. 
* 1686, 31st January. Near Rauden in Courland, a black 
substance like paper, in great quantity: a similar substance is 
said to have fallen at the same time in Norway and Pomerania. 
Baron Th. von Grotthuss found a portion of it in an old ca- 
binet of natural curiosities, and has published his analysis of 
and interesting observations on it, in Schweigger’s Journal, 
Band xxvi. p. 332, &c. He has been kind enough to present 
me with a fragment of it. 
1689. At Venice, and in the vicinity, red dust. 
1691. Red rain at Orleans, 4 la Madelaine, according to 
Lemaire. ; 
1711, 5th and 6th May. Red rain near Orsio in Schonen. 
1781, 24th March. On the island of Lethy, a heap of a 
jelly-like substance on the spot where a fiery meteor had fallen 
with a report. 
1719. A rain of dust with a radiant appearance, on the 
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