Show Peculiar II Dark Dark Day N Never ever Yet Explained The e dark day I la s so called on I ac-I ac- ac account ac account count of ot a remarkable darkness on that day da May 19 W 1780 extending till over o the lie New England slates In some places people could not see to I tend pad common print pilot In the open opell air for fur sev several ev- ev eral crill hours together says the Spring Spring Spring-Icid field Republican Buds sung sling their evening e song souS disappeared and unil silent fowls went to roost little cattle sought the barnyards and candles were lighted In the lie houses As to the explanation of of tills this phe phe- phenomenon phenomenon phenomenon have been heen much puzzled It was us plain from the tall fall falling lag ing of the barometer that the air all wa surcharged with heavy vapor The Th e darkness then It might tight be said wa s only the result of u dense fog fo op but the question of the cause of so 10 re- re remarkable r re remarkable e- e a fog was ero Large fires may stay have prevailed t huh In the forests of northern r ew New NewYork NewYork v York and Penn a n I a re region lon ot at that time an absolute wilderness tIt e smoke from which was borne Lorne through the upper regions of or the th i atmosphere to 10 fall when It came orne to 10 a 11 locality of o f d Tess 1511 buoyant air down to the Hie lower lowe r strata While It Is s stated that thes e tires might have hn recently preceded s lay Iny and und served as Its Ita sufficient cause couse e there t Is only presumptive e that they did occur |