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Show Phenomena Awed Europe. Europe and Asia were covered by fog during the summer of 17K.1. Bays Gilbert W hile (letter 1U9): "The mm-mer mm-mer of the year 1783 was an aniasina nnd a portentous one , . , for, be sides Hie alarming meteors and tremendous tremen-dous thunderstorms . . . Ihe peculiar pe-culiar bnio, or smoky fog, Hint prevailed pre-vailed for ninny weeks In this Ulsnd (Kugland) and In every part ol Ku rope, and even beyond Us limits, wss a most extraordinary appearance. The heat wns Intense. Culnbrln and part of the Isle of Sicily were lorn and convulsed with earlhiimkes." Cowpt r also refers lo this phenomenon. In peaking of "nature, with a dim and Irkly eye." |