84 M. ChladnVs New Catalogue of Aerolites, [Aug. 



192. — In China. De Guignes. 

 176. — A stone in the lake of Mars. Liv. xli. 3. 

 90 or 89. — A shower of bricks. Ptini/ and JuL 06s. 

 89. — In China. De Guitrnes. 

 56 or 52. — Spongy iron, in Lucania. Flim/. 

 ? 46. — Stones at Acilla. Cesar. 

 38, 29, 22, 19, 12, 9, 6.— Falls of stones in China. De 

 Guigties, 



Stones fallen at undetermined Epochs, 



The mother of the gods fell at Pessinus. 



The Elagabalus at Emisa, in Syria. 



The stone preserved at Abydos, and that of Cassandria, 

 Pliny. 



? The black stone and another preserved in the caaba or 

 teiiiple at Mecca. 



(The stone preserved in the coronation chair of the kings of 

 England is not, as has been believed, a meteoric stone.) 



Falls of Stones or Iron after the Cordmencement of our Era. 



In the years 2, 106, 154, 310, and 333, some stones fell in 

 China. Abel Bemusat, Jotirn. de Phys. May, 1819. 



(The stone which it was pretended fell from heaven in 416, 

 at Constantinople, of which Sethus Calvisius makes mention in 

 his Op. Chionolog. was only a stone from Constantine's great 

 column, which, by its fall, injured the pedestal.) 



... .A stone in the country of the Vocontini. Pliny. 

 452. — Three large stones in Thrace. Cedrenus and MarceU 



linus. 

 6th century. — Stones on Mount Libanus, and near Emisa in 



Syria. Damascins. 

 1^10 (or thereabouts.) — Stones near Bender, in Arabia. 



Koran, 8, 16 ; cv. 3 and 4, and the Commentators. 

 616. — Stones in China. Abel Remusat. 

 648. — An ignited stone at Constantinople. — Abel Remnsat. 

 839. — Stones in Japan. Abel Remusat, 

 852, in July, or August. — A stone at Tabaristan. De Sacy 



and Quatremere. 

 856, in December. — Five stones in Egypt. The same. 

 885. — Stones in Japan. Abel Remusat. 

 897. — At Ahmed-Dad. Quatremere; according to the Chron. 



Syr. in 892. 

 921. — Large stones at Narni. Manuscript Chronicle of the 



monk Benedictus de Saint- Andrea , which is in tiie 



library of the Prince Chigi, at Rome. 

 951. — A stone at Au":sbourg:. Alb. Stad.'AU^ others. 

 998. — Stones at Magdebourg. Cosmas and Spangcnberg. 



