Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-01-06
Extract ora letter from a gentleman at Mac,

Ertrcct ora letter Prom gentleman at MacA'aap,
thichRaackiHGch) 10 his grteHd in tie totn OF
PrOv'dence, az. ~ dGtCd oct. 10, 1919.
"hen last wrote you, lIie thought my next
would he on snbject which is calculated To excite
ihe condemnation 0f the many Crafty the curiosit,
OF The few. The 9th inst. may emphaioay he called
py The inhabitants OF this island, the dark day-the
following is transcript OF the hus made at the time
Oct0bCr 6.-o u'clOCk, \. NJ. wind fresh from S e.
thick msi! atmUsp there and SEINE ran-hai past 10,
"ihu IN TIE same direction and beginning to grow
unusually dakl2 O'Clock The darkness has increased
so considerably as 10 attract the attention al every
peisnh-haH past IL O'Clock, man cannot he IeCOg
hzed al any yards, though objects are obscuTey vis
bic At much further disaHce-t O'Clock The darkness
has increased much objects cannot be disceIned
Two itei nom the eye, IN large with windows
candles are Lighted in every house the fowls have
gone to roos and all nature has assumed the appear
ante ot night baJf past I, p. the darkness slill
continues, the atmosphere IL loaded with rolling
aehse VapoT, threatening an approaching storm al
ms perod the wind changed TO S. w and a few mo-
nehts ahet me naIhhess began to diminish, so that
Objects are ubscuTely three hundred wards
the suns rays appear feebiy to penetrate the thick
NaPSl WIN which We are surrounded, and the whole
say from the zenith TO the horizon, Is of beautiful
pa'' Grange color which, conraSted with the dark
scenery helOW, presents of the most intersstns
speciaces that The imagination eonceive-2 O'Clock
y shy aud darkness as al half past wind
Continuing ~ the same diTeCton-a few niHutes AFTER
2 II began 10 RAIN and darkness increase so that
wihlh doors was almost as dark night-half past
p since O'clock, the darkness has Increased ana
Diminished at intervals, hut time could one see
10 write without Candirhalf past ii has grown unite
Sht, wind fresh from The S. W. and some rain past
nole-laii rast 3. Il. ~ clear S. w. and sunshine
You viii account for this phenomenon when Won
beST ~ mnG the srfChaIged of the alnos uhee
win NdpUT, eh ihe morning OF the 9th, and the sudden
ohange o Tie int al half past There had been 40
nouOt, Two ChtTcntS OF air, stretching Lakes
huron and Michigan ~ opposite directions and these
produced an accumulation of vapoT lIlcb would Of
course he concentrated IN this vicinity, where the
opposing WINDS met This accumulation and conceu
haon of NapoT was great impervious TO the
suns rays hence the darkness its increase and
dIrinuuon after two o'cloeL may he explained by
snpp"s,n5 greater or less quantity vapor at given
tunes"
RcmarkS by a Correspondent.
Tue pheunrNenon so well described IN the above
eNract,is certainly calculated to excite The attention
OF the curious. Whether Tue explanation gwen Of it
ny Tue "Tller rs satisfactory, "ay he questInn....
similar appearances were observed az OF about the
same lime, over wide extent Of OmT country: fact
"hCh could not have been known the writer in his
insulated situation his well known -inpenuIiy
migh have suggested some different s.itiOn han the
" winds" sweeping Lakes Huron ana NiciiraB in
opposite directions aud Joining their dark encounter
III mid air"Ibe fact is, that 1redther uidom is still
Il cOnjectuTal science. tPyoy Put
We do not ever recollecI To have heard Of so much
Varltv OF dramatic talent, combined in female AS
IS spoken o ~ the fellow tAr article copied from a
paper printed at Brighton, (EugJ Nov
THE THEATRE. .,....Miss Cara F,sbrf has bcen
praying htle win the most gratifying suc, ess She
apprdttd As Richard The bird Friday and Sir John
t"5t9i, ~ - second part Of Henri the Finh on
Sdturdas eYrhiHg She astonished and delipbted The
auditors. Size concludes her engagement IA NoryaI m
to morrow n1bt.0