STORM OF FLIES.
A remarkable spectacle was witnessed on the Hudson River, America, it being nothing less than a heavy storm of flies, similar to the one recorded in the London Telegraph as having been witnessed at Havre. The steamer Martin, bound south, encountered the fly-storm between New Hamburg and Newburg. It was, like the Havre storm, seemingly, “ a great drift of black snow,” and it reached southward from shore to shore, as far as the eye could reach and as high up. There were millions upon millions of the flies, and they hurried northward as thick as snow-flakes driven by a strong wind. They lodged upon the clothing ol the passengers on the steamer, and were minutely examined. They were long and black and had white wings, and the cloud must have been miles in length. The steamer Mary Powell ran into the fly-storm off Haverstraw, and first mate Bishop says that in all his experience he never witnessed such a sight.
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Patea Mail, 8 January 1881, Page 4
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