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“Red Snow at Genoa”

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on April 10th, 2007

On St. Joseph’s Day, 1678, on the mountains called La Langhe, there fell, on the white snow, that lay there before, a great quantity of red, or if you please, of bloody snow. From which, being squeezed, there came a water of the same colour. Communicated by Sig. Sarotti, the Venetian Resident there, to Mr. Boyle.

Philosophical Transactions, 1678