The signs of the times: or Some expositions and remarks on sundry texts of Scripture, relative to the remarkable phenomenon, or dark-day, which appeared in New-England on the nineteenth of May, 1780 : by which it appears that New-England is the place that the Prophet Joel calls Zion and Jerusalem. / By Samuel Gatchel, deacon of the Second Congregational Church in Marblehead.
| Author/creator | Gatchel, Samuel |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Danvers [Mass.] : Printed and sold by E. Russell, at his printing-office near the Bell-Tavern. M,DCC,LXXI. (Pr. 8 dol.) Also may be had, sundry other new pieces, [1781] |
| Description | 16 pages ; 18 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17169. ^A478749 |
| General note | The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, no. 57. |
| References | Evans 17169 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17169). |
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