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of the same place, and some which had been seen by M. 

 Flaugergues, by whom the account is drawn up, belonged to 

 Dr. Mausin. The stone appeared to be composed of two 

 substances. The one in largest proportion is grey, and 

 mixed with small black-shining grains. The surface is covered 

 by a thin stratum, resembling a black and polished glare, 

 not unlike that of the potteries. It appears to be formed of the 

 black particle before spoken of, that have been fused at the sur- 

 face, and has been very fluid, for the smallest inequalities are 

 cased by it without being filled up. The stone is moderately 

 hard, is scratched by steel instruments, does not strike fire 

 with steel, and is not acted on by nitric acid. 



M. Flaugergues agrees with those theorists who would consider 

 this stone^as having formed a very small comet or planetary body 

 which has been met in its course by the earth. — Journ. de Phys. 

 xcii. p. 463. 



In a further account of this aerolite given by M. L. A. D. Fir- 

 man, it is stated that another meteoric stone a kilogramme in 

 weight, was found a little distance off, and several small ones 

 at Mayras, near to Juvinas. M. de Malbos, who happened to 

 be at Barias when the stone fell, was looking towards the place 

 where it first appeared at the time. He saw a globe of fire 

 descend perpendicularly from the heavens. He shewed it to his 

 workmen, and counting his pulse estimated the time between 

 its appearance and the explosion that followed, at five seconds. 

 He observed also the obscure vapoury trace left by the meteoro- 

 lite in the air. It was not continued to the earth but ceased to 

 be emitted before the stone reached the ground, and remained 

 seven or eight minutes undissipated. — Journ. de Phys. xciii, p. 71. 



6. Earthquake in Cunnemura. — Upwards of one hundred 

 acres of the lands of Letterbrocken, part of the property of the 

 Provost of Trinity College in Joyce County, and consisting of 

 prime pasture and mountain, on which a number of tenants re- 

 sided, commenced moving and carrying with it huge rocks, im- 

 mense masses of earth, the entire crop of wheat, oats, potatoes, 

 &c., precipitated the whole into the sea and disappeared. 

 Previous to its movement, a great noise was heard for some 

 time, and the ground was convulsed. It is supposed that the 

 previous drought which had occurred, prepared the way for this 

 phenomenon. Two days after, a large tract of land thickly in- 

 habited, the property of R. Martin, Esq. M. P., in the same 

 neighbourhood, was visited with alike phenomenon, but even of 

 a more destructive nature ; the loss of the sufferers not being 

 confined to their land and crops, but their entire stock and pro- 

 perty being swallowed up by the earthquake. These occur- 

 rences are mentioned in the Gents. Mag. for November, from the 

 Tumn Gazette, and their date given as ten days previous. 



