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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2015
This shower took place about the 10th of June. The following account of it is from the Inverness Courier; and, as showing the interest the phenomenon excited, it was republished in most of the English papers. The copy I give is from the Spectator of the 3d July.
“After the late thunder-storm, a deposit resembling sulphur was observed in several places in this neighbourhood (Inverness). At Freeburn it lay on the road and grass in some places to a depth of nearly half an inch. At Craigton Cottage, near Kissock, the deposit was observed on the top of water caught in a cask from the roof of the house, like a thick cream. The sulphurous substance was skimmed off, and dried in a piece of flannel. When dry it was a fine powder, and when thrown into the fire ignited exactly like gunpowder, making a slight fizzing noise. Unfortunately none was preserved beyond what was experimented on in this way.
page 158 note * In the pollen of the Scotch fir we find, that by the increase of the intine the extine is separated into two hemispherical portions, marked by the dark spaces at each end of the grains.—Edit. R. S. Proc.
page 159 note * The names of the places given in the newspapers where the pollen was observed denote, it will probably be admitted, the great extent of surface over which the shower spread. Craigton Cottage and Kilmuir are, I am informed, two miles from Inverness, about eighteen miles from Freeburn, and Kilmuir is about forty-four miles from Kingussie; that is by the mail-road, but no more than thirty-three in a straight line due south.