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same observation with reference to the gas lamps at the New Bridge ; 

 at a bathing establishment in the south part of the city, where 100 

 cubic inches of dust were reckoned to have fallen on a roof surface 

 of 600 square feet ; in the region of Bergsund, etc. 



Similar accounts, often accompanied by samples of dust, soon 

 arrived from places situated at a greater distance from Stockholm ; 

 from Charlottendal in Brannkyrka, Fagelsta near Tumba, Sodertelge, 

 Orbyhus, Oregrund, Margretelund, Eanas in Fasterna parish; from 

 Svartsjo, where the ash-rain fell between 12 o'clock noon and 3 p.m. ; 

 from Vanda and Yallentuna ^^arishes in Eoslogen, where the dust 

 fell with a hard westerly or north-westerly wind and rain mixed 

 with snow, which began at 11 o'clock a.m. ; from Soderhamn, where, 

 according to numerous accounts, ashes fell partly dry, partly accom- 

 panied by sleet, both from 8 to 9 o'clock a.m. and at 5 p.m. ; from 

 Falun, where the ash-rain occurred at 8 o'clock a.m., without being- 

 accompanied by any other rainfall ; from the neighbourhood of Tennas 

 Church village and other places in Harjeadalen, where the snow be- 

 came grej'^ from a fall of ashes or sand, yet in spots and very un- 

 equally, so that the snow at certain places remained quite clean, while 

 at others when melted it yielded up to six cubic inches of ashes per 

 square fathom ; from Lekvattnets parish in Yermland, whence a dis- 

 tinct statement was obtained that the fallen ashes were very un- 

 equally distributed, and were collected like a shadow on the lee-side 

 of raised objects, whence accounts were also received that a similar 

 ash-rain had happened in the same region between the 9th and 11th 

 of April ; from Solleftea, where a dark grey dust covered the snow- 

 field on the morning of the 31st, after an abundant rain, mixed with 

 snow, had fallen the preceding night. 



Yet more abundant was the ash-rain in Korway. Thus some per- 

 sons in Tryssild, near the frontier, remarked, when they were out 

 between 11 and 12 o'clock in the night before the third day of Easter, 

 that a dust fell which caused an unaccountable pain in the eyes. In 

 the darkness they at first took it for snow, but with light it appeared 

 to consist of fine sand. Higher up in the f jells, whose common snow 

 covering was now in many places concealed by a grey coating of 

 ashes, the sand was often conglomerated into large grains, which, 

 however, speedily fell asunder in water. Thin flakes of a grey or 

 black colour matted together, and strongly resembling the remains 

 of burnt paper, also occurred. On the ice of a lake there even lay 

 in many places heaps of dust weighing a sixth of a pound, but it is 

 uncertain whether these were already collected in the air, or if they 

 were afterwards swe23t together by the wind. Another correspon- 

 dent remarks that the fall of ashes took place over a very extensive 

 region, at some places accompanied by snow, at others unmixed, 

 between 1 and 4 o'clock a.m., the temperature of the air being 12*5 C, 

 and the wind light and its direction doubtful. At Nolden, near 

 Sunderon, on the west coast of Norway, the surface of the snow, 

 which the day before was clean, was seen on the morning of the 

 30th to be covered with a brownish-grey dust, yet the snow-fields on 

 the highest fjell-tops were pretty clean or only covered with ashes 



