| Gilbert White - 1866 - 448 pages
...memory of man. By my journal I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23 to July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to...lurid, and bloodcoloured at rising and setting. All this time the heat was so intense, that butchers' meat could hardly be eaten on the day after it was... | |
| Gilbert White - 1867 - 542 pages
...varied to every quarter, without milking any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as black as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous...particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. Ail the time, the heat was so intense that butchers' meat could hardly be eaten the day after it was... | |
| 1867 - 552 pages
...man. By my journal, I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23rd to July 20th, inclusive, during which period the wind varied to...alteration in the air. The sun at noon looked as blank and ferruginous as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground and floors... | |
| Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1870 - 532 pages
...varied to every quarter, without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as black as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground and floors of rooms, bnt was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time, the heat was so... | |
| George Farrer Rodwell - 1871 - 620 pages
...strange blue colour. But " the sun at noon," says Gilbert White, " looked as blank and ferruginous as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous...particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting." In that year there had been many subterranean disturbances in Europe, and, in particular, a tremendous... | |
| George Farrer Rodwell - 1873 - 752 pages
...noon." says Gilbert White, " looked as blank and ferruginous as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-colored ferruginous light on the ground and floors of rooms, but was particularly lurid and blood-colored at rising and setting." In that year there had been many subterranean disturbances in... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1882 - 320 pages
...memory of man. By my journal, I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23 to July 20, inclusive, during which period the wind varied to...alteration in the air. The sun at noon looked as blank and ferruginous as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground and floors... | |
| 1884 - 902 pages
...of man. By my journal I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23d to July 20th, inclusive, during which period the wind varied to...alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as black as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-colored ferruginous light on the ground and floors of rooms,... | |
| 1884 - 536 pages
...Danes Harrington, describes " the amazing and portentous phenomena " observed in the summer of 1783. " The sun at noon looked as blank as a clouded moon,...shed a rustcoloured ferruginous light on the ground, particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. The country people began to look with... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 662 pages
...Daines Harrington), describes the " amazing and portentous phenomena " observed in the summer of 1783. " The sun at noon looked as blank as a clouded moon,...shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground, particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. The country people began to look 1 I have... | |
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