LETTER LXV. 



To the same. 



HE summer of the year 1783 was an amazing 

 and portentous one, and full of horrible phae- 

 nomena; for, besides the alarming meteors and 

 tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted 

 and distressed the different counties of this 

 kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smoky fog, 

 that prevailed for many weeks in this island, 

 and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, 



