Show a Hot Summers on the Continent Italian sources givo the annexed list of hot summers as recorded in history and modern records In G27 the heat was so great in France and Germany that the springs were dried up water failed and many persons died of thirst In 879 the fields were fonaken by the I I laborers Those who persisted in working 1 work-ing were killed by 1 sunstroke I In 993 Vegetation was burnt up by the heat of the sun as by fire In 1000 the rivers were dried up and I maspK of fish were left in a state of pu I trefnton which brought on a pestilence In 102L men and beasts when exposed to the sun fell down and died In 1132 not only were the rivers dried up but the soil cracked and became as i hard as a stone In Alsace the Rhine I was almost dry i I In 1139 the heat was such in Italy that i I all plants were roasted I In 1260 during the battle of Bela the heat made more victims than the weapons weap-ons of the bellijrents Whole lines of men fell sunstruck In 1277 pasture lands burnt up no forage for-age to be had In 1303 and 1304 the Rhine the Toiro and the Seine were dried up In 1615 excessive heat throughout Europe Eu-rope In 1G25 Scotland was visited by extreme heat fatal to man and beast In 1705 the heat was so great that meat could be baked in the sun no one could go out between 12 and 4 oclock In 1718 not a drop of water fell for six months All theatres and public establishments estab-lishments were closed 1779 at Bologna many persons died of asphyxia The air was so unbreathablo that people were obliged to take refuge under ground In 1703 July intolerable Vegetables all burnt up Fruit dried on the trees In houses the furniture and woodwork were all cracked and no meat could be kept In 1811 in many provinces the rivers were dried up and there was great difficulty diffi-culty to get corn ground In 1822 persistent heat accompanied by storms and earthquakes The drought wrought out a formidable legion of mice which ravaged Lorraine and Alsace At Saverna in a fortnight 2000000 mice were destroyed In 1832 the heat brought on cholera In Paris nearly 20000 died The years 1846 1850 i860 1869 1870 1875 and 1884 are mentioned as being of unusual heat |