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remarkable event. It appears from costniiasiilltins made to that gen- 
tleman, that on Friday, August 17, between one and two o’clock, P. M., 
the negroes of Mr. Chandler, near Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennes- 
see, came in and reported that it had been raining blood in the tobacco 
field where they had been at work ; that near noon there was a rattling 
noise like rain or hail, and drops of blood, as they supposed, which fell 
from a red cloud which was flying over. Intelligent men visited the 
ground, and observed drops apparently of blood on the upper surface 
of the tobacco leaves, and portions of flesh and fat—one piece one and 
a half inches long, emitting a very offensive smell over the field. 
The drops evidently fell perpendicularly over a space from forty to 
sixty yards broad, and six or eight hundred yards long. Some particles 
Fics to have been clear blood uncombined with any thing else; 
others, blood ‘united with muscular fibre and fat. Dr. Troost, after’vis- 
iting the place, is decidedly of the opinion that it was animal matter, but 
he heals not.blood ; although he distinctly distinguished muscular fibres, 
on maceration of the matter in water, which separated longitudinally, 
as in the case of dried beef ; they were of a reddish brown color. Piers 
pieces supposed to be blood were brown and resembled glue. 
was a distinct smell of animal matter in a state of putrefaction. 
Both the muscular part and that which had been called blood, were 
heated ina glass tube, and were similarly affected as beef would have 
‘been in the same circumstances ; there was a moyement in the mass, a 
brown fluid rose, anda black animal charcoal remained.’ Dr. 
concluded, that without doubt this is animal matter, and belongs to our 
globe. - He cites many instances of red | rain, red dust, red sand, red 
snow, showers of blood, so called, &c. in various centuries from 472 of 
our éra to 1814, and gives the authorities, There is now no room to 
relate or discuss these statements, and it remains only to give the con- 
clusion of Dr. Troost. — 
After” alluding: to the well known j power of wind to raise materials 
high into the atmosphere and to transport them to the distance of many 
miles, (and éven in some cases, as in volcanic eruptions, hundreds of 
. iles,) he observes : “Such a wind might have taken up part of an ani- 
which was in a state of decomposition, and have brought it in con- 
tact with fe Heres ater in which it was kept in a state of partial 
‘fluid this case, the cloud which was seen by the ne- 
8, Sel th ste in which the materials were, is accounted 
