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explosions at the works. At Eagle Bridge, on the Troy and 

 Bennington Railroad, the concussion was forcible enough to jar 

 the windows and shake the seats of a train of cars in motion. At 

 Greenbush, opposite Albany, numbers of people rushed to the 

 docks, under the supposition that a passing steamboat had ex- 

 ploded her boiler. The noise and concussion also appear to have 

 been noticed, to nearly an equal extent, at points sixty miles east 

 of the Hudson, while the whole area over which the sound is pos- 

 itively known to have been heard with distinctness was upward 

 of two thousand square miles. The area of country, on the other 

 hand, over which the meteor was seen, was, as might have been 

 expected, much larger than the area over which the explosions 

 were heard, being at least equal to six thousand square miles. 

 Thus, observations were made upon it at Morristown, Lamoille 

 Co., Vermont, twenty-five miles north of Montpelier, and at South 

 Manchester, Conn., a point nearly two hundred miles south ; it 

 was also observed at localities west of the Hudson River, and at 

 various points from thirty to fifty miles east of the Hudson. 

 Within a radius of thirty miles northeast and southeast of the 

 city of Troy, it was probably observed by every person out of 

 doors, who was at the time looking in a southerly direction ; yet 

 such is the unreliability of human testimony as regards natural 

 phenomena, that no two observers can be found to agree as to 

 many important particulars, such as apparent size, period of visi- 

 bility, direction, altitude, &c. 



The estimates formed of its size are exceedingly discrepant ; 

 some observers comparing it to the sun, or full moon, and others 

 to a sky rocket, or the luminous ball projected from a Roman 

 candle. All agree, however, that its appearance even in full sun- 

 shine was exceeding bright and dazzling, the light being at the 

 same time of a reddish color. So bright, indeed, was it at Straf- 

 ford, Vt., a locality nearly one hundred miles north of the proba- 

 ble point of explosion, that its distance was estimated as not 

 exceeding a half a mile from the point of observation. 



A single fragment only of the meteor is positively known to 

 have fallen. This was found in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y., 

 and at a point about ten miles west of Albany. The circum- 

 stances connected with the phenomenon related by the person who 

 noticed it are as follows : — 



