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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Kensington, Connecticut, on the 3rd instant at sunset, a strange, hot fog descended like thick clouds, breaking against houses and resembling boiling steam, filling residents with amazement and fear of fire or the apocalypse. A similar event was reported in Sutton, 100 miles east.
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"On the 3d Instant about Sun-set at this Place was a Fog of so strange and extraordinary an Appearance, that it fill'd us all with Amazement. It came in great Bodies like thick Clouds down to the Earth, and in its Way striking against the Houses would break and fall down the Sides in great Bodies, rolling over and over. It resembled that thick Steam rising from boiling Wort, and was attended with such a Heat that we could hardly breathe. When I first saw it I really thought my House had been on Fire, and ran out to see if it was so ; but my People thought the World was on Fire and the last Day come. One of our Neighbours was then at Sutton, One hundred Miles to the Eastward, and reports it was much the same there."
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Kensington In Connecticut
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3d Instant About Sun Set
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A Fog of so strange and extraordinary an Appearance... came in great Bodies like thick Clouds down to the Earth, and in its Way striking against the Houses would break and fall down the Sides in great Bodies, rolling over and over. It resembled that thick Steam rising from boiling Wort, and was attended with such a Heat that we could hardly breathe. When I first saw it I really thought my House had been on Fire... but my People thought the World was on Fire and the last Day come. One of our Neighbours was then at Sutton, One hundred Miles to the Eastward, and reports it was much the same there.