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Mr. Burr wa;^ standing in the roatl, in front of his house, 

 when the stone fell. The noise produced by its collision 

 villi a rock of granite, on which it struck, was very loud. 

 Mr. Burr was within 50 feet, and immediately searched for 

 the body, but, it being still dark, he did not lind it till half 

 auhour after. By the fall, some of it was reduced to i)owder, 

 and the rest of it was broken into very small fragments, 

 which v^'cre thrown around to the distance of 20 or 30 feet^ 

 The granite rock was stained at the place of contact with a 

 deep lead colour. The largest fragment which remained 

 did not exceed the size of a goose-egg, and this Mr. Burr 

 found to be still warm to his hand. There was reason to 

 concKide from all the circumstances, that this stone must 

 hare weijxhed about tw^entv or twenty-five pounds. 



Wr. Burr had a strong impression that another stone fell 

 in an adjoining field, and it wasi confidently believed that a 

 large mas*^ had fallen into a neighbouring swamp, but nei- 

 ther of these had been found. It is probable that the stone 

 whose fall has now been described, togelher with any other 

 masses which may have fallen at the same time, was thrown 

 froni the meteor at the first explosion. 



S, The masses projected at the second explosion seem to 

 have fallen principally at and in the vicinity of Mr. William 

 Princess, in Weston, distant, about five miles, in a southerly 

 direction, from Mr. Burr's. Mr. Prince and family were 

 still in bed, when thei/ heard a nnise like ike fall of a very 

 hearty lodyy immediately after the explosions. I'hey formed 

 TarioHS unsatisfactory conjectures concerning the cause—r 

 nor did even a fresh hole made through the turf in the door- 

 yard, about twenty-five feet from the house, lead to any 

 conception^ of the ca\isc, or induce any other inquiry than 

 .why a new post-hole should have been dug where there was 

 no use for it. So far we?e this family from cQuceiving of 

 the possibility of such an event as stones falling from the 

 clouds. They had indeed formed a vague conjecture that 

 the hole might have been made by lightniug, but would 

 probably have paid no further attention to the circumstance, 

 had ibey not heard, in the course of the day, that stones 

 had fallen th^t n^orning in other parts, of the town. Thi^ 



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