An Account of a Shower of Meteoric Stones, 235 



this statement, was derived from Mr. Elihu Staples, who 

 said, that when the meteor disappeared, there were appa- 

 rently three successive eflbrts or leaps of the fire-hall, which 

 grew more dim at every throe, and disappeared with the 

 last. 



Such were the sensible phaenomena which attended this 

 meteor. We purposely avoid descrihing the appearances 

 which it assumed in other places, leaving this task to others 

 who have the means of performing it more accurately ; 

 while we proceed to detail the consequences which followed 

 Ihe explosions and apparent extinction of this luminary. 



We allude to the fall of a number of masses of stone in 

 several places, principally within the town of Weston. The 

 jplaces which had been well ascertained at the period of our 

 investigation, were six. The most remote were about 9 or 

 10 miles distant from each other, in a line differing little 

 from the course of the meteor. It is therefore probable that 

 the successive masses fell in this order, the most northerly 

 first, and the most southerly last. We think we are able 

 to point out three principal places where stones have fallen, 

 corresponding with the thrte loud caimon-like reports, and 

 with the three leaps of the meteor observed by Mr. Staples. 

 There were some circumstances common to all th^ cases. 

 There was in every instance, immediately after the explo- 

 sions had ceased, a loud whizzing or roaring noise in the 

 xiir, observed at all the places, and, so far as was ascertained, 

 at the moment of the fall. It excited in some the idea of a 

 tornado ; in others, of a large cannon-shot in rapid motion ; 

 and it filled all with astonishment and apprthension of som6 

 impending catastrophe. In every instance immediately after 

 this was heard a sudden and abrupt noise, like that of a 

 ponderous body striking the ground in its fall. Excepting 

 one, the stones were more or less broken. The most inj- 

 portant circumstances of the particular cases were as fol- 

 low : 



}. The most northerly fall was within the limits of Hunt- 

 ington, on th.e border of Weston, about 40 or 50 rods east 

 bf the great road from Bridgeport to Newtown, in a cross 

 tba(ll. and contiguous to the house of Mr. Merwin Burr. 



Mr. Burr 



