John Jay Johns -- 7 augustus 1869

Aug. 7, 1869. Clear and cool. This is the day of the great eclipse of the sun. Just about four oclock p.m., as was calculated, the eclipse began. At 5 o'clock it was almost total, looked like twilight, only there was a strange, sombre appearance, quite unnatural. Nature shows signs of uneasiness when the sun hides his light in that way. How grand and solemn is such a sight, and how wonderful that man can calculate with certainty years beforehand such an event.


John Jay Johns (1818-1899) was een Amerikaanse boer die een groot deel van zijn leven een journaal bijhield.