| | | [36] Ibid. p. 225. | | | | [37] 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 M. _Cyriac Spangenberg_, chap. | | 287, fol. 336. b. Eisleben, 1572. Compare _Staind._ Chron. (?) | | in _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:—“Cœlum ingravescit, _aër impurus sentitur: nubes crassæ ac | | multæ luminibus cœli obstruunt, immundus ac ignavus tepor hominum | | emollit corpora, exoriens sol pallescit_.” p. 50. | | | | [38] See Caius’ account of the causes of the sweating sickness, in | | the Appendix.—_Transl. note._ | | | | [39] _Mezeray_, Histoire de France, Tom. II. 418. Paris, 1685. | | Compare _Oudegheerst’s_ Chroniques de Flandres. Antwerp, 1571, 4to. | | Chap. 175, f. 297. | | | | [40] They spread in a direction from East to West, over most of | | the countries from which we have received intelligence. Anonym. | | Leobiens, Chron. loc. cit. | | | | [41] _Giov. Villani_ Istorie Fiorentine, L. XII. chap. 121, 122. in | | _Muratori_, T. XIII. pp. 1001, 1002. Compare Barnes, loc. cit. p. | | 430. | | | | [42] _J. Vitoduran._ Chronicon, in _Füssli. Thesaurus_ Histor. | | Helvet. Tigur. 1735. fol. p. 84. | | | | [43] _Albert. Argentiniens._ Chronic. in _Urstis._ Scriptor. rer. | | Germanic. Francof. 1585. fol. P. II. p. 147. Compare _Chalin_, loc. | | cit. | | | | [44] _Petrarch._ Opera. Basil. 1554. fol. p. 210. _Barnes_, loc. | | cit.