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IN NATURE of September 30 I see a letter from Dr. Henry de Varigny on the above subject. It reminds me of September 2 last year, when I noted in my diary:—“The day here (400 ft. elevation on scarp of the Lower Greensand overlooking the Weald) was brilliantly fine and warm, without a cloud, South Downs misty, a gentle wind from the south-eastward. My sister heard very distant continuous rumbling, like guns, all the morning up to 1.30, and several times mentioned it when sitting in the garden; my coachman and a maid-servant also heard it. What was going on that day in France it would be interesting to know; there was no gun-firing on the coast of Sussex.” I wrote, after taking bearing on map:—“It may possibly be as far as 150 miles to Amiens.” I find twice since, and only a fortnight ago, similar continuous rumbling has been heard, but unfortunately the date not noted. I am much too deaf to hear such sounds myself.
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GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. Distances at which Sounds of Heavy Gun-firing are Heard. Nature 96, 173 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096173a0
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