[32] Deguignes Loc. cit. p. 226, from Chinese sources.
[33] Deguignes Loc. cit. p. 225.
[34] 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 Cyriac Spangenberg, chap. 287, fol. 336. Eisleben, 1572. Compare Staind. Chron. (?) by 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:—Coelum ingravescit, aër impurus sentitur: nubes crassae ac multae luminibus coeli obstruunt, immundus ac ignavus tepor hominum emollit corpora, exoriens sol pallescit.” p. 50.
[35] See Caius’ account of the causes of the sweating sickness, in the Appendix.—Translator.
[36] Mezeray Histoire de France, Tom. II. 418. Paris, 1685. V. Oudegheerst's Chroniques de Flandres. Antwerp, 1571, 4to. Chap. 175, f. 297.
[37] 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.
[38] Giov. Villani Istorie Fiorentine>, L. XII. chap. 121, 122. in Muratori T. XIII. pp. 1001, 1002. Compare Barnes Loc. cit. p. 430.
[39] I. Vitodaran. Chronicon, in Fuseli. Thesaurus Histor. Helvet. Tigur. 1735, fol. p. 84.
[40] Albert Argentiniens. Chronic. in Urstis Scriptor. rer. Germanic. Francof. 1585. fol. P. II. p. 147. Compare Chalin. Loc. Cit.
[41] Petrach. Opera. Basil 1554. fol. p. 210. Barnes. Loc. cit.