Odd Showers: Or, an Explanation of the Rain of Insects, Fishes, and Lizards; Soot, Sand, and Ashes; Red Rain and Snow; Meteoric Stones; And Other Bodies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Odd Showers: Or, an Explanation of the Rain of Insects, Fishes, and Lizards; Soot, Sand, and Ashes; Red Rain and Snow; Meteoric Stones; And Other Bodies

Although the rain of frogs is one of those popular errors that is widely prevalent, yet it must be stated that a s/zower of these creatures, is within the range of possibility, equally so with fishes and lizards, illus trated farther on, if 'any stream or pool of water containing them was sucked up by a waterspout or otherwise raised by a hurricane and transported to a distance more or less remote.

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