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Moreover, it was credibly affirmed, that in the Winter of the Year 1688, there fell a Red Snow, which lay like Blood on a spot of Ground, not many miles from Boston; but the Dissolution of it by a Thaw, which with in a few hours melted it, made it not capable of lying under the contemplation of so many Witnesses as it might have been worthy of. The Bloody Shower that went before the suffering of the ancient Britons from the Picts, (a sort of People that painted themselves like our Indians) this Prodigy seemed a second Edition of.

Moreover, it was credibly affirmed, that in the Winter of the Year 1688, there fell a Red Snow, which lay like Blood on a spot of Ground, not many miles from Boston; but the Dissolution of it by a Thaw, which with in a few hours melted it, made it not capable of lying under the contemplation of so many Witnesses as it might have been worthy of. The Bloody Shower that went before the suffering of the ancient Britains from the Picts, (a sort of People that painted themselves like our Indians) this Prodigy seem'd a second Edition of.

And in the opinion of the most Critical Observers, throughout the Country, they were prodigious or at least, Uncommon SIGHTS and SOUNDS, which on the first of October, in the Year, 1689. We were entertained withal, and not unlike those which Pliny mentions as presages to the Cimbric Wars of old. For on that Day, in the Morning, while the Sky was too clear, to give us a suspicion of any thing like Thunder approaching ⟨image ?⟩there suddenly Blazed a Flames in the fashion of a Sword; which Blaze after a continuance, far longer than that of an ordinary Lightning, expired in a smoke that gave Terror unto the Beholders of it. But hereunto succeeded immediately very terrible and Repeated Noises, exactly like Volleys of small Shot, not without Reports like those of Great Guns superadded thereunto. This was a Scene which all the Colonies of this large Country, and Thousands of People, at once were Spectators of, carrying in it, something, beyond the known Law• which ordinary Meteors are Conformed unto. And herein was indeed One Circumstance, that gave Demonstration, of something Rare and Great in this Occurrent; That persons which were Distant from one another many scores of Miles above an Hundred, yet at the same Time, both Saw and Heard the whole of what is now related; and though I know, the Fancies of men applying themselves unto what is in the Clouds, are Fruitful even to a Ridicule; strong imagination being able to find, even a Juno in them. and all that can be any where imagined; the shapes of Clouds, like the Clinks of Bells, humouring the Thoughts of any one; yet in This Accident, no small Numbers of Gentlemen, who do not use to be imposed upon, but count no Trial severe