124 REPORT—1850. 
the afternoon, on the outskirts of the village, in a shed belonging to Ranoo 
Patel. There was at the time no rain, but heavy clouds towards the north- 
ward ; there had been several claps of thunder for about two hours previously, 
and some lightning. Suddenly, while we were seated in the shed, several 
heavy claps of thunder occurred in quick succession, accompanied with 
lightning, on which we both went out to look around us, when in the middle 
of a heavy clap, we saw a stone fall to the ground in a slanting direction 
from north to south, preceded by a flash of lightning. It fell about fifty 
paces distant from us ; on going up to it we found that it had indented itself 
some four or five inches in the ground; it was broken in pieces, and as far 
as we could judge, appeared to be about fifteen inches long and five in dia- 
meter, of an oblong shape, somewhat similar to the chouthe grain measure ; 
it was of a black vitreous colour outside, and of a grayish yellow inside; it 
was thea of a mouldy * texture, and hardened to the consistence of the pre- 
sent specimens afterwards. Only one stone fell. No rain had fallen for 
eight days previously, nor did it until four days after the fall of the stone. It 
had been warm all day before, but not much more so than usual. From 
midday until the time the stone fell (3 P.M.) it was very cloudy towards the 
northward ; after its fall, the thunder ceased and the clouds cleared away. 
No stone of a similar description had ever fallen near our village before. 
The pieces of the stone were immediately after carried off by the country 
people. Our village is situated on the banks of the small river the Poorna ; 
there are no hills in its vicinity, the nearest being three coss (or six miles) off. 
The above is a true statement, dated at Rawere, talooka Jaoda, on the 17th 
December, 1844. (Signed) “Gosa up NaGoJserE CHoworiE, 
“ HunMuNTA uD Dama NAIK.” 
“ True translation of the deposition given before me on the above date. 
“Ὁ, J. InveraARity, Acting 1st Assist. Col.” 
Chemical Examination.—The specimens were referred to me for exa- 
mination, of which this is my report. 
The specimens are mainly composed of an earthy grayish white pul- 
verulent mass, slightly tinged with a bluish gray in some parts. It is 
excessively friable, and both crumbles and soils the fingers even when most 
delicately handled. In the earthy mass are thickly imbedded light greenish 
glassy particles of olivine, single and in nests, resembling green mica or 
felspar; the appearance in some parts being almost that of an earthy variety 
of lepidolite. On the side of one piece of Capt. Abbott’s specimens is a 
bright black crust, thickly but minutely mammillated. When this is touched 
with the file, it leaves a rusty mark, but gives no metallic trace. This crust 
is exceedingly thin and splinters off, and in one place a mass of the olivine 
in it is melted to a green bead. It is too fragiie, and our specimens too 
small to attempt obtaining sparks from it. Two of Mr. Bell’s fragments also 
have small portions of crust yet adhering to them. 
Internally, and by the magnifier, a few bright white metallic points are 
discoverable, and in one or two places small nests of it: there are also a few 
of a brown kind. We have one fragment of an aérolite which fell in 1808, 
at Moradabad, which is pulverulent, but not so much so as the present spe- 
cimen by agreat deal. The present specimen is in this respect almost unique ; 
as the only one I now recollect to have read of as very pulverulent, is the 
one from Benares, mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions. 
The aérolite of Moradabad is studded over with rusty specks from the 
* Soin MSS. Perhaps muddy, ἑ. 6. soft, earthy texture, was meant ?—-H. P. 
