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We were in our house. At half-past three o’clock p.m., whether from heaven 
or elsewhere, a prodigious ball (ghybee golah) fell. The noise it made was 
very great, it might be heard twenty miles round. We heard it with our 
own ears, and in fear and trembling ran outside to look, as running out we 
found that it had fallen outside the village on the southern aspect, and that 
in falling it had been shattered to pieces, some of which had been scattered 
far. We put our hands upon that which lay together ; it felt cool; shortly 
after it became rather warm. When first we saw it, the pieces were black ; 
after a day’s interval the colour changed to blue, and now the fragments 
are white. 
“ Question. When the ball fell, was any flash perceptible, or was the heaven 
darkened ? Who saw it fall ? How large was it? And who heard the noise 
at the distance of twenty miles? 
* Answer. We saw nothing. When the ball fell, we heard the noise and ran 
to see what had caused it. The spot on which it fell was hollowed by the 
shock a span and a half in diameter, and three fingers’ breadth in depth. The 
ball was about the size of a kedgeree pot (ghurrah, ἐ. 6. about ten inches in 
diameter); the people of Edulabad and of other parts heard the noise in 
the clouds, at least so they say. The ball being shattered, people came and 
carried away the’ pieces. The remainder was sent to the Sowdah Komardar, 
and by him to Dhooliah. What remains I give you*. 
“ True and literal translation. « J, ΑΒΒΟΤΎΥ, Capt., 
“ Mundlaisir, Angust 1843.” Pol. Asst., in Nimaur.” 
« Note.— A few grains of this aérolite were first sent me by letter from Asseer. 
I despatched a karkoon immediately to the spot, to make inquiries and collect 
as much of the fragments as possible, supposing that he would have cause 
to believe the report well-founded. The greater part of what he collected 
accompanies this report. It agrees exactly with the grains first sent me.— 
J. ABBOTT.” 
At Capt. Abbott’s suggestion, the collector of Khandeish, J. Bell, Esq., 
Bomb. C. S. was written to, and he has kindly forwarded us a few small frag- 
ments more, with the following letter and deposition. 
“ To W. W. Bett, Esg., Collector of Khandeish. 
“ Sir,—With reference to your Mahratta Yad of the 5th ultimo, with en- 
closure from the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, requesting me to 
transmit any information along with specimens procurable of an aérolite that 
fell in the month of July 1843, in the vicinity of the village of Manegaum of 
this talooka, I have the honour to transmit translation of a deposition given 
before me, by a couple of individuals who were spectators of the fall of the 
aérolite in question, along with five small specimens of the same, all that I 
have been able to procure after much search; these however I trust will be 
sufficient to indicate the nature of the meteorolite. 
“T beg to return your enclosure, and to remain, Sir, your most obedient 
Servant,” ἢ “C, Inverariry, Acting 1st Assist. Col.” 
“ Camp, Circuit at Rawere, Talooka Joada, Jan. 1st, 1845.” 
Translation of a deposition given in Mahratta, by Goba Wullud Nagojee 
Chowdrie, and Hunmunta ud Dama Naik Solie, inhabitants of the village 
of Manegaum, pergunnah Edulabad, turaf Jaoda, of the Khandeish Collec- 
torate, who were spectators of the fall of an aérolite in the vicinity of their 
village, in the month of July 1848. 
On the day the aérolite fell we were both seated, about three’o’clock of 
* The supposed and the actual circumstances are in this expression oddly involved ; we 
consider that the natives employed this language, and that the author of the letter gives their 
literal words.—Ep. 
