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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Unusual darkness in Lexington, Kentucky, on Thursday before Oct. 31, lasted from 2 to 4:30 PM, forcing residents to light candles for dinner. Speculated causes include thick fog or an opaque body blocking the sun, with objects appearing yellow like during a solar eclipse.
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On Thursday last, it was so dark from about two o'clock until about half after four in the evening, that the inhabitants of this place were obliged to have lighted candles to dine by.
Various are the conjectures with respect to the cause of the darkness: some suppose it proceeded only from an uncommon thick fog or clouded atmosphere; whilst others are of opinion that some immense opaque body passing at that time between the body of the Sun and the Earth, was the cause. All objects had that yellow appearance which they have in a great eclipse of the Sun.
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Lexington (Kentucky)
Event Date
Thursday Last
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It was so dark from about two o'clock until about half after four in the evening, that the inhabitants of this place were obliged to have lighted candles to dine by. Various are the conjectures with respect to the cause of the darkness: some suppose it proceeded only from an uncommon thick fog or clouded atmosphere; whilst others are of opinion that some immense opaque body passing at that time between the body of the Sun and the Earth, was the cause. All objects had that yellow appearance which they have in a great eclipse of the Sun.