£ ON METEORIC STONLS, 



Aecount of its '< In November laft an extraordinary occurrence, faid to 

 have happened on the Seventeenth of that Month in a ploughed 

 field at Sena, a village in the diltrict of Sigena, was the fub* 

 jecl of converfation in this city. 



" The iky being perfectly ferene, three reports refembling 

 thofe of cannon were heard, and followed by the fall of a 

 itone weighing nine pounds and one ounce, at a little diftance 

 from two labouring men. One of them went up to it, but 

 the ftrong fmell it emitted (topped him a moment. 



" Recovering from his furprife he went nearer, raifed it up 

 with his fpade, and waited till it was fufficiently cold for him 

 to carry it to the village, where he delivered it to the 

 prieft. 



V From inquiries made immediately afterwards on the fpot, 



and among the people in the neighbourhood, it appears, that 



the noife in the air and fall of the ftone were not accompanied 



with any ftorm, or with lightning." 



^Another meteo- , To bring into one view all that is yet known of ftones fall- 



ric lho ^ c a r t °f ell ,n S m Spain, the author fubjoins a letter of the Bachelor 



at Roa in Spain, Cibdadreal, on thofe that fell in the village of Koa, near 



in 1438, Burgos, in 14-38. 



in the view of " While the King Don John and his court were hawking 

 the King of near the village of Roa, the fun was concealed behind white 

 P**"* .clouds, and bodies refembling gray and blackifh ftones were 



feen to fall from the air, of fuch bulk as tooccafion the greateft 

 furprife. 

 The ground was " After this phenomenon had continued for an hour the 

 thcm! d *" n re " a PP earecl > and tne falconers immediately rode to the 



place, which was not above a mile diftant. They brought 

 back information to the king, that the ground was fo com- 

 pletely covered with ftones of all fizes as not to be vifible. 



" The king would have gone thither, but his courtiers 



prevented him, obferving, that a place chofen by Heaven for 



the theatre of its operations might not be free from danger, 



and that he had better fend fome of his attendants. Gomez 



Thefc ftones Bravo, the captain of his guards, undertook the office. He 



were very brought four of the ftones to Roa, whither the king had already 



retired. They were of confiderable fize : fome were round, 



and as large as a mortar, others like pillows and half -f unique 



wctremely light, meafu res (fuch as contain about 4olbs weight of corn,) but 



what was moft afloniihing, was their exceffive lightnefs, fince 



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