SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



standing he used his utmost efforts, and latterly tied his clothes 

 to the grappling-iron, and sunk them to keep him steady f still 

 the balloon was carried away so fast, that he was under the 

 necessity of expelling the gas ; upon that escaping, the car 

 actually sunk, and he had now nothing but the netting to cling 

 to. His perilous situation, and the fear of getting entangled, 

 deterred the men from coming near him j until, being in dan- 

 ger of drowning, Mr. Sadler begged they would run their bow- 

 sprit through the balloon, and expel the remaining gas. Hav- 

 ing done this, they threw out a line, which he wound round 

 his arm, and was then dragged a considerable way before they 

 could get him on board, quite exhausted, 



A meteoric stone, of the weight of 15lbs. fell to the earth 

 on the 1st of March, 1811, in the village of Konleghowbk, 

 dependent on the town of Romea, in the government of 

 Tschernigoff, in Russia, and making part of the domains of 

 Count Golovkin. Its fall was preceded by three violent claps 

 of thunder. When it was dug out from the depth of more than 

 three feet, through a thick layer of ice, it still possessed heat. 

 It was remarked, that at the third clap of thunder there was 

 qn extraordinary explosion, with aloud noise, and throwing out 

 3 great quantity of spares. 



A new comet was discovered by M. Pons, of Marseilles, on 

 the 20th of July. Its course was then between the feet of the 

 Camel-leopard and the head of the Lynx. It was discovered 

 afterwards at Paris, by M. Bouvard j and, according to th# 

 calculations of these astronomers, it passed its perihelion on the 

 15th of September, when its distance from the sun, taking that 

 ©f the earth at unity, was at 0,77.835, and its inclination to 

 the ecliptic is 74° 50'. 



The Geological Society held its first meeting of the present 

 session on Friday, November 6th, 1812. 



A second letter from Ed. L. Irton, Esq., in answer to some 

 queries by the President, relative to the sand tubes found at 

 Drigg, in Cumberland, was read. 



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