^34 Account (^Meteoric Stones and Masses Iron, ^c. 
1560. On the day of Pentecost, red rain fell at Embden and 
Louvalne. — Froimnd. . 
Dec. S4. A meteor and red rain fell at Lillebonne. — Na^ 
tails Comes. 
1586, Dec. 3. Red and black matter fell at Verde in Hanover, 
with thunder and lightning.— il/AS'*S'. of Salomon. 
1591. A shower of blood fell at Orleans. — Lemalre. 
1618, Aug. A shower of blood, stones, and a meteor, fell in 
Styria. — De Hammer. 
1637, Dec. 6. Much black dust fell in the Gulf of Volo and in 
Syria.— Trans, i. p. 377. 
1638. Red rain fell at Tournay. 
1640, Oct. 6. Red rain fell at Brussels. — Kronland and Wendelinus. 
1645, Jan. 23. or 24. Red rain fell at Bois-le-duc. 
1689. Red dust fell at Venice, &c. — Vallsnleri. 
1711, May 5. and 6. Red rain at Orsion in Sweden. — Act. Lit. 
Suecice, 1731. 
1718, March 24. Gelatinous matter fell, with a globe of fire, in 
the Isle of Lethy in India. — Barchewitz. 
1719. Sand fell in the Atlantic, latitude 45° N., and longitude 
322° 45' from Paris. — Mem. Acad* Par. 1719. Hist. p. 23. 
1744. Red rain fell at St Pierre d’Arena near Genoa. — Richard. 
1755, Oct, 20. Black dust fell in Shetland, particularly at Scal- 
loway. It was like lamp black, and smelt strongly of sul- 
phur. — Phil. Trans, vol. l. p. 297. 
— — Nov. 13. The sky was red, and red rain fell in difierent 
^ countries. — Nov, Act* Nat* Cur. tom. ii. 
1763, Oct. 9. Red rain fell at Cleves, Utrecht, hc.^Mer curio 
Hist* y Polit* Madrid, Oct. 1764. ♦ 
1765, Nov. 14. Red rain fell in Picardy.— -Richard. 
1781, April 24. Count Gioeni observed, in the third region of 
Mount Mina, every thing ‘‘ to be wet with a coloured creta- 
ceous grey rain,” which, after evaporation, left every place 
covered with it to the height of two or three lines. All iron- 
work touched by it became rusty. ^ Phil* Trans* 1782, vol 
Ixxii. p. 1. 
1796, March 8. A viscous matter fell along with a meteor in Lii- 
satia. It had the colour and odour of dried brown varnish, 
and is supposed by Chladni to consist of sulphur and iron. 
Gilbert'' s Annal. Iv. 
