32S ACCOUNT AND DESCRIPTION 



till half an hour after. By the fall, some of it was reduced to 

 powder, and the resf was broken into very small pieces, which 

 were thrown around to the distance of 20 or 30 feet. 



The 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 conclude, 

 from all the circumstances, that this stone must have weighed 

 from '20 to 25 pounds. 



Mr. Burr had a strong impression that another stone fell in 

 an adjoining field, and it was confidently believed that a large 

 mass had fallen into a neighbouring swamp ; but neither of 

 these had been found. 



It is probable that the stone whose fall has now been de- 

 scribed, together with any other masses which may have fallen at 

 the same time, was thrown from the meteor at the first explo- 

 sion. 



2nd. The masses projected at the second explosion seem 

 to have fallen principally at, and in the vicinity of Mr. 

 William Prince's in Weston, distant about five miles from 

 Mr. Burr's, in a southerly direction. 



Mr. Prince and family were still in bed, when they 

 heard the explosions, and immediately after, a noise like 

 that ordinarily produced by the fall of a very heavy body 

 to the ground. They formed various unsatisfactory conjec- 

 tures concerning the cause, nor, did even a fresh-made hole 

 through the turf in the door-yard, about 25 feet from the 

 house, lead to any conception of the cause. They had indeed 

 formed a vague conjecture that the hole might have been made 

 by lightning; but, would probably have paid no farther atten- 

 tion to the circumstance, had they not heard, in the course of 

 the day, that stones had fallen that morning, in other parts of 

 the town. This induced them, towards evening, to search the 

 hole in the yard, where they found a stone buried in the loose 

 earth, which had fallen in upon it. It lay at the depth of two 

 feet; the hole was about 12 inches in diameter, and as the 

 earth was soft and nearly free from stones, the mass had sus- 

 tained little injury, only a few small fragments having been 



