The Year Without Summer (41 page)

“6th, snowed in considerable…”: Ludlum,
Early American
, p. 192.

“large icicles pending…”:
Salem Gazette
, June 11, 1816.

“snow fell in this town…”:
Columbian Centinel
, June 12, 1816.

“I can find no person…”:
Albany Daily Advertiser
, July 3, 1816.

“The weather was more severe…”:
Danville North Star
, June 15, 1816.

“but still frost and ice…”:
Connecticut Courant
, June 25, 1816.

“most severe frost…”:
Connecticut Courant
, June 25, 1816.

“It has frozen very hard…”: Ludlum,
Early American
, p. 190.

“severely cold and…”:
Vermont Mirror
, June 12, 1816.

“the very face of…”:
Vermont Mirror
, June 12, 1816.

“killed to the ground…”: Stommel,
Volcano
, p. 37.

“Another frost, cold…”: Ludlum,
Early American
, p. 190.

“Indian corn, beans…”:
North American Review
, May 1817, p. 154.

“For three days we had…”: Thomas, p. 53.

“but the fruit has been…”: ibid., p. 82.

“We saw neither peaches…”: ibid., p. 105.

“The trees on the sides of the hills…”:
North American Review
, May 1817, p. 154.

“the crops of wheat…”:
National Aegis
, June 12, 1816.

“great damage has been done…”:
Albany Daily Advertiser
, June 11, 1816.

“totally destroyed…”:
Niles’ Weekly Register
, August 10, 1816, p. 385.

“a check is given…”:
Eastern Argus
, June 12, 1816.

“In some instances the corn is…”:
American Advocate
, June 15, 1816.

“What is to become…”:
Connecticut Courant
, June 25, 1816.

“the most gloomy apprehensions…”:
Brattleboro Reporter
, July 17, 1816.

“the weather, during the last week…”:
Albany Argus
, June 11, 1816.

“the oldest inhabitants…”:
Rutland Herald
, June 12, 1816.

“never before…”:
Vermont Mirror
, June 12, 1816.

“we are very apt to misrecollect…”:
Albany Daily Advertiser
, June 19, 1816.

“I began these experiments…”: Fleming,
Meteorology
, p. 6.

“the chief object ought to be…”: Wood, p. 726.

“so that we may know…” Quoted in Abbe, “History,” p. 546.

4. T
HE
H
ANDWRITING OF
G
OD

“This is an extraordinary spring…”:
Columbian
, June 7, 1816.

“We do not recollect to have witnessed…”:
American Beacon
, May 9, 1816.

“The sun is no doubt…”:
Brattleboro Reporter
, July 7, 1816.

“The alarm from spots…”: Mussey, p. 437.

“We think the alteration…”:
Niles’ Weekly Register
, August 10, 1816, p. 386.

“Very cold weather produced…”:
Brattleboro Reporter
, July 17, 1816.

“The word had been given…”: Latrobe,
Rambler
, p. 102.

“a very awful noise…”: Dow,
Dealings
, p. 155.

“At the same time…”: Johnston, “New Madrid,” p. 346.

“the earth was horribly torn…”: Dow,
Dealings
, p. 156.

“a feverish excitement”: Sanford,
Quest
, p. 109.

“It is perfectly understood…”:
Niles’ Weekly Register,
August 10, 1816, p. 386.

“the extensive forests…”:
Daily National Intelligencer
, September 5, 1812, p. 2.

“A few years ago…”: Thomas, p. 58.

“a pernicious vapour…”: ibid., p. 56.

“the very handwriting…”: Laskin, pp. 56–7.

“When the Vapours rise…”: ibid., p. 55.

“supplemented rather than replaced…”: Murphy, “Prodigies,” p. 399.

“the most general…”: Saum,
Popular Mood
, p. 9.

“All things are known…”: ibid., p. 3.

“The Wheel of Providence…”: ibid.

“The King Providence…”: ibid., p. 11.

“the Lord in his goodness…”: ibid.

“I always consider the settlement…”: Butterfield,
Diary
, p. 257.

“Perhaps we can assign…”:
Brattleboro Reporter
, July 17, 1816.

“Great frost…”: deBoer,
Volcanoes,
p. 153.

“By fasting, humiliation, & prayer…”: Murphy, p. 403.

“The revivals in these years…”: Hotchkin,
History
, p. 126.

“all classes were subjects…”: ibid., pp. 127–8.

“the blaze being so brilliant…”: Thomas, p. 46.

“full-blooded merinos…”: Fletcher,
Pennsylvania Agriculture
, p. 195.

“Gather apples on the…”: ibid., p. 341.

“dark of the moon”: ibid.

“Hark! I heard the…”: ibid.

“although I made the…”: ibid., p. 355.

“Agriculture is at its…”: Thomas, p. 48.

“truly indicative of…”: ibid., p. 49.

“Often descending in…”: ibid., p. 59.

“The peach, the plumb…”: ibid.

“the character of the present…”:
Ipswich Journal
, July 6, 1816.

“The atmosphere still seems…”:
Lancaster Gazette
, June 8, 1816.

“considerable fall…”:
Ipswich Journal
, July 6, 1816.

“the torrents of rain that have…”: Paget,
Capel Letters
, p. 163.

“France is quite…”: ibid., pp. 163–4.

“all scientists, writers or artists…”: Lucas-Dubreton, p. 29.

“predictable forms of behaviour”: Harrington,
Year Without
, p. 360.

“The only object visible…”:
Times
(London), July 7, 1816.

“that can repay you for…”: Jones,
Mary Shelley
, p. 19.

“Geneva is far from…”: Jones,
Percy Shelley
, vol. I, p. 356.

“he asked me with an appearance…”: Priestly,
Prince
, p. 180.

“never really knew what…”: ibid., p. 183.

“exactly the kind of person…”: Florescu,
In Search of
, p. 45.

“turned Geneva into an…”: Edgcumbe,
Diary
, p. 236.

“The English in general are…”: Gooden,
de Staël
, p. 277.

“Switzerland is a curst…”: Florescu, p. 100.

“We watch them as…”: ibid., p. 107.

“the nature of the principle…”: Shelley,
Frankenstein
(1831), p. x.

“the component parts of…”: ibid.

“The season was cold…”: Shelley,
Frankenstein
(1818), p. 2.

“the story of a husband…”: Florescu, p. 113.

“These tales excited in us…”: Shelley,
Frankenstein
(1818), p. 2.

“suddenly thought of a woman…”: Seymour,
Mary Shelley
, p. 157.

“manufactured, brought together…”: Shelley,
Frankenstein
(1831), p. x.

5. D
AY
A
FTER
D
AY

“Death is sweeping his scythe…”: McCullough, A
dams
, p. 617.

“empire of superstition…”: ibid., p. 619.

“still retains the appearance…”:
Farmer’s Cabinet,
July 13, 1816.

“Here a pivot…”: McCullough, p. 618.

“my hearing is not quite…”: Ford,
Writings
, vol. X, p. 6.

“In June, instead of…”: ibid., p. 64.

“One could not be…”: Brant,
Madison,
p. 411.

“Louis XVIII had just…”: ibid., p. 408.

“an imbecile tyrant”:
Niles’ Weekly Register
, November 9, 1816, p. 169.

“hoped to hide the…”: Brant, p. 409.

“A ruler more respected…”: ibid., p. 407.

“He gave to this day…”:
Richmond Enquirer
, July 13, 1816.

“With it, there is strength…”: ibid.

“They have warred…”: ibid.

“degraded and abject…”: ibid.

“sinking back into…”:
National Register
, July 6, 1816, p. 1.

“grinding her subjects…”: ibid.

“sultry hot weather”: Mussey, p. 437.

“a body could not feel…”: ibid., p. 438.

“the wind was N. West…”:
Middlesex Gazette
, August 15, 1816.

“so cold as to render…”: ibid.

“Our climate is far from…”:
Richmond Enquirer
, July 13, 1816.

“frozen down, about…”: Mussey, p. 438.

“in consequence of the backwardness…”:
Farmer’s Cabinet
, July 27, 1816.

“the most gloomy apprehensions…”:
Brattleboro Reporter,
July 17, 1816.

“Season very unpromising…”: Hoyt, p. 121.

“fears of a general…”: ibid., p. 122.

“the effects of an atmosphere…”:
Richmond Enquirer
, July 13, 1816.

“and there was a considerable space…”:
Stockbridge Star
, July 18, 1816.

“we have had several days…”:
Farmer’s Cabinet
, July 27, 1816.

“Think I never saw…”: Mussey, p. 438.

“The possession of Java…”: Egerton, p. 113.

“cannot longer be…”: ibid., p. 126.

“Anxiety soon pulls a man…”: ibid., p. 129.

“Although I am considerably…”: ibid., p. 131.

“and for the remedy…”: Adams,
Memoirs,
III, p. 382.

“the distresses of some classes…”: ibid., p. 383.

“the miserable state of things…”:
Daily National Intelligencer
, Sept. 13, 1816.

“Willing to work…”: Martineau,
History
, p. 53.

“with the most perfect…”: ibid.

“The season has been so unusually…”: Adams, p. 405.

“I have not yet ventured…”: ibid.

“The continuance of the present…”:
Times
(London), July 20, 1816.

“Such an inclement summer…”: ibid.

“the quantity of fine Wheat…”:
Times
(London), July 27, 1816.

“Melancholy accounts have been…”:
Norfolk Chronicle
, July 20, 1816.

“An indescribable misery…”:
Times
(London), August 2, 1816.

“to the almost…”:
Times
(London), July 13, 1816.

“In every part…”: ibid.

“Our rich grass lands…”: ibid.

“the grass which was cut…”: ibid.

“Even if the weather were…”: ibid.

“We continue to receive…”:
Times
(London), July 24, 1816.

“continual rains, torrents…”:
Times
(London), July 22, 1816.

“The hopes of a very fine harvest…”: ibid.

“the country was flooded…”: Edgcumbe, p. 215.

“the whole country…”: ibid., p. 222.

“the severity of the present season…”:
Times
(London), July 24, 1816.

“the harvest, which has been…”:
Times
(London), July 27, 1816.

“an unexampled dearth”:
National Register
, July 13, 1816.

“does not give any…”:
Times
(London), July 27, 1816.

“All the fine plain…”:
Times
(London), July 24, 1816.

“completely destroyed the hopes…”:
Times
(London), July 22, 1816.

“the churches and…”: Adams, p. 405.

“offered up in the churches…”:
Times
(London), July 20, 1816.

“a mad Italian prophet”:
Times
(London), July 22, 1816.

“and those who escaped…”: ibid.

“Old women have taken…”:
Times
(London), July 13, 1816.

“to prepare themselves…”: ibid.

“the weather was gloomy…”:
Times
(London), July 23, 1816.

“Suddenly cries, groans…”:
Times
(London), July 23, 1816.

“an enormous mass of clouds…”:
Gentleman’s Magazine
, July 1816, p. 72.

“In France as well…”:
Times
(London), July 23, 1816.

“added to the severe distress…”:
Times
(London), July 20, 1816.

“fairly frightened some of our…”:
The Atheneum
, I, 1817, p. 37.

“outrageous fooleries…”: Vail, “Bright Sun,” p. 185.

“the multitude are…”: ibid., p. 186.

“the Italian mountebanks”:
Times
(London), July 29, 1816.

“not unconnected with…”: Vail, p. 186.

“the end of the world…”:
Times
(London), July 13, 1816.

“this end of the World Weather…”: Vail, p. 188.

“in a fit of…”: Adams, p. 405.

“Another wet morning…”: Vail, p. 188.

“a dense whitish cloud…”:
Gentleman’s Magazine
, September 16, 1816, p. 173.

“The next year…”: Huntington, “Eighteen Hundred,” p. 94.

“This was enough…”: ibid.

“unusual excitement on the…”: Backman, “Awakenings,” p. 302.

6. T
HE
L
OST
S
UMMER

“The month was, without, perhaps…”: Harington,
The Year
, p. 369.

“a single room…”: Donnelly,
The Land and the People
, p. 24.

“rough stones…”: ibid.

“particularly suitable to…”: Smith,
Wealth of Nations
, p. 185.

“had neither the will…”: Ó Tuathaigh,
Ireland Before
, p. 94.

“generated universal amazement”: Brynn,
Crown and Castle
, p. 28.

“cool and sure intellect…”: ibid., p. 32.

“the country is in a…”: Gash, p. 176.

“intermittent social warfare”: ibid., p. 174.

“The enormous and overgrown…”: Parker,
Peel Correspondence
, p. 233.

“You can have no idea…”: ibid., p. 207.

“In truth, Ireland is…”: ibid.

“The people see that there is…”: Crossman,
Politics
, p. 24.