October 7th.—The heat to-day was literally intolerable, and wound up at last in a tremendous thunderstorm with violent gusts of rain. At the Legation, where Lord Lyons entertained the English visitors at dinner, the rooms were shaken by thunder claps, and the blinding lightning seemed at times to turn the well illuminated rooms into caves of darkness.
Intolerable heat, thunderstorm, thunderclaps and blinding lightning.— William Howard Russell’s Diary.
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