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The character of the soil in which the meteorite fell was clayey, 

 and no other stones were observed while digging it up. The mete- 

 orite lay with the side shown in Plate V, down. The weather at the 

 time was fair, but there had been a shower a few hours previous. 

 The mud splashed by the meteorite against the house was seen by 

 the writer when he visited the locality six months after the fall, in 

 February, 1905. The mud had been thrown in considerable quan- 

 tity across the porch, a distance of about three feet, upon a 



Fig. 1. Place of fall of the Shelburne meteorite. A board marked by the star stands 

 in the hole from which the meteorite was dug. 



window, and was even to be seen on the lower side of the roof 

 of the porch at a height of about eight feet. The direction in 

 which the mud was thrown was southeast from the point where 

 the meteorite fell. The shed shown in Fig. 1, was six and a half 

 feet from the point of fall. The height of this shed is twelve feet. 

 It stands north of the house, and northwest of the point of fall of 

 the meteorite. A line drawn to the point of fall of the other stone 

 would pass directly over the roof of this shed so that had the di- 

 rection of fall of the smaller stone been at a low angle with the 

 horizon, it would have struck the roof. Calculation shows that the 

 angular altitude of the meteorite must have been at least 26 ° to 



