H 
16 Profefor WIL LIaMs's decount, ie. 
Hi fome. watery clouds, it has fallen. down together with the 
- sain.” 
^ We hive another account of this sailings in aletter from 
an officer, who was then at Detroit, to a friend at Wilmington; 
in Pennfylvania. ** The 19th of this month, (October, 1762) 
de was the moft extraordinary dark. day, perhaps, ever {een im 
te the world. At nine.in the morning, it was fcarce lighter 
-s than at break of day, and fo continued till about twelve 
“0 "clock, ,— the air being very AA of £moke; accompanied. with 
i (trong as. of l- flaw, and other cambuftibles, 
; Ee i — E At palf an " after one,-it 
m that we were obliged to light candles to dine i: At this 
** time it rained a little ; with which fell a quantity of black 
** particles, like afhes, as turned every thing it fell upon black. 
** Even the river (which is twice as wide as s Obofane in Pean- 
« fleania J was covered with black froth ; which, when fcum- 
T ‘ed oF the free, refembled the lather. of foap, with this 
| AUSTR EHOIE as now alot gone. We have de Mna: 
-* formed, by people who were twenty miles from hence that” 
^* day, that the darkneís, rain, and fmell, was.the fame with 
* them.” — 
"T here does not appear to have idi any thing to fapport the» 
conjecture of a volcano, Jübterraneaus fires, and fulpbureous mat-- 
Jer. In all other particulars, the phenomena agree to thofe 
that were obferved among us, and feem to be derived from the- 
fame pe | 
- Felix, qui potuit rerum cognofcere caufas, 
— que metus omnes et inexorabile fatum 
al pedibus. 
