LETTER LXV. 



To the same. 



summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and 

 portentous one, and full of horrible phenomena ; 

 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, was a most extraordinary appearance, 



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