S34 Dark days of Canada. 



July, made on that day, in another ship which also lay ofl| 

 Cape Chat; and the last narrative describes the appearances 

 of the third day of July, upon the Banks of Newfoundland, 

 of which I was an eye witness. It is taken from a journal 

 of a voyage to England, which I made at that period in the 

 Phoenix, from Quebec to England. 



Before I enter upon these narratives, I beg leave to, 

 premise that the darkness of the 2d of July, 1814, does not 

 appear to have extended much beyond Cape Chat. A 

 mixture of ashes, and a black substance in powder, fell in 

 partial showers at Kamouraska; and the day was there 

 observed to be dull and gloomy,* but it was not considered 

 to be peculiarly dark, and on this side of Kamouraska it 

 does not appear to have attracted any particular notice ; at 

 Quebec also it exhibited nothing extraordinary except 

 that yellow tinge upon the clouds, bordering the line of 

 the horizon in the north-east quarter of the heavenr', which 

 Las already been mentioned, and is not unfrequently seen 

 from the walls of the garrison.* 



The narrative of Captain Payne is taken from Tilloch's 

 Philosophical Magazine, and Mr, Tilloch's correspondent 

 makes the following introductory remark upon it : — ''Your 

 *' philosophical readers will not fail to notice the coin- 

 ** cidence between the phenomena described below, and 

 " those which were observed at St. Vincent, and other 

 ^* Islands in the West Indies, upwards of a year ago." 



This narrative is entitled : — 



" Remarks on board ship in the River St. Lawrence, 

 " distant about twenty miles from the Bay of Seven, 

 </ Islands above the Island of Anticosti, 3d July, ISH-" 



* lutbrmatiou from suvcral penous. 



