Note 34 — Chapter III

There were also many locusts which had been blown into the sea by a hurricane, and afterwards cast dead upon the shore, and produced a noxious exhalation; and a dense and awful fog was seen in the heavens, rising in the East, and descending upon Italy. Mansfeld Chronicle, in Cyriac Spangenberg, chap. 287, fol. 336. Eisleben, 1572. Compare Staind. Chron. (?) by Schnurrer. (“Ingens vapor magnitudine horribili boreali movens, regionem magno adspicientium terrore dilabitur”.) and Ad. von Lebenwaldt, Land-Stadt-und Hausarzney-Buch fol. p. 15. Nuremberg, 1695, who mentions a dark, thick mist which covered the earth. Chalin expresses himself on this subject in the following terms:—Coelum ingravescit, aër impurus sentitur: nubes crassae ac multae luminibus coeli obstruunt, immundus ac ignavus tepor hominum emollit corpora, exoriens sol pallescit.” p. 50.