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APPENDIX. 
I. Account of a new Kind of Rain. Written by the Count dc 
Gioeni, an Inhabitant of the Region of Mount H,tna ; 
communicated by Sir William Hamilton, K. B. I. R. S. 
See p. I. 
Volat per Mare magnum cinis decoBus , ct terrenis nubibus 
excitatis , tranfmarinas quoqiie provincias puhereis guttis 
implevit . cassiod. lib. IV. var. epift. 50. 
T HE morning of the 24th inftant there appeared here a 
mod; lingular phenomenon. Every place, expofed to the 
air, was found wet with a coloured cretaceous grey water, 
which, after evaporating and filtrating away, left every place 
covered with it to the height of two or three lines ; and all 
the iron- work that was touched by it became rufty. 
The public, inclined to the marvellous, fancied various 
caufes of this rain, and began to fear for the animals and 
vegetables. 
In places where rain water was ufed,. they abftained from it: 
fome fufpeCting vitriolic principles to be mixed with it, and 
others predicting fome epidemical diforder. 
Thole who had obferved the explofions of Etna twenty days 
and more before, were inclined to believe it originated from 
one of them. 
The fhower extended from N. | Tn.E. to S. 5 SV\ . ovci the 
fields, about fevcnty miles in a right line from the vertex of 
Etna. 
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