92 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [June 23, 
The accompanying illustration shows two views of this stone, one-half 
natural size. It is covered with the usual black crust, which is 
noticeably thick, and appears to be of equal thickness on all sides, indi- 
cating that there was no breaking up in the latter part of its flight. 
This crust has been broken on some of the sharper corners after it 
struck the earth, otherwise it is perfect, having been preserved as it 
was found. 
It fell in the village of De Cewsville, Ontario, Canada, about two 
p. m., Jan. 21, 1887, striking in the ditch on the south side of the street 
known as the Talbot Road, opposite lot number 43, con. 1. The ditch 
at the time contained about a foot of water from a recent thaw, which 
was covered with thin ice. The meteorite made a hole in this ice, I 
was told, about a foot in diameter. The whizzing noise in the air and 
the splash in the water were heard, and the latter seen by Mrs. Leonard 
Strohm, who was walking along the middle of the street and was only 
about fifteen feet distant. Her first thought was that some one had 
De CewsviILLE METEORITE, 
(One-nalf natural size.) 
thrown a sndw-ball. The noise made by the passage through the air 
seems to have been heard with about equal distinctness by two men 
who were engaged in conversation, Mr. Drinkwater and Jacob Strohm, 
one sitting in his sleigh in the middle of the road and the other by a 
pump in his barn-yard, on south side of road, about 150 yards west of 
where the meteorite fell. This fact, together with the further fact that 
the meteorite after striking the ice and frozen ground in the bottom of 
ditch seems to have passed three or four feet to the eastward, indicates 
pretty clearly that it came from the west, and the impression of at least 
one of the persons who heard it, Mr. Strohm, whom I saw and questioned, 
was that it came from the west or a little north of west. Search was at 
once made for the stone by Mr. Strohm and others, but without success, 
and the spot where it struck was marked by cutting a notch in the fence 
near by. 
