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als led to the following enquiry. The experiments of Black 
and others have shewn, that when water is brought to the 
freezing point, a quantity of caloric sufficient to carry the 
thermometer through many degrees, may be imbibed or giv- 
en off, without affecting the thermometer or the sense of feel- 
ing. May not the state of ice-water be such, that though it 
seems tobe but little sided than spring pees it will take 
the Id 
much more caloric. fro stomac not this en- 
quiry afford ample sistonisls for a poe graduates’ disser- 
tation? — A. Eaton. 
4, Virginia Aerolite. 
TO THE sesebphiieds 
Bremo, F » Va., August 4th, 1828, 
Sir—The fact that stones have fallen from the atmos- 
phere, is now universally admitted by men of science, but 
as there may still be some persons not acquainted with the 
evidence, who may entertain doubts on the subject, it may 
not be amiss to make known the facts connected with an 
instance of the sort that occured in Chesterfield county in 
this state about mee ec south west of Richmond, on the 
ourth of June last—this case is as well attested as any of 
the kind I ever feclleet to beve heard of. 
I made some enquiry ead obtained a piece of the stone, 
Sis in your cabinet which was part of a stone that 
fell in Connecticut many years ago,* an account of which 
is published in the American edition of Rees’ Cyclope- 
pois. Most of the exterior is of a dark grey color; about 
one third is covered with a black crust. The fracture is 
anular and of a light grey, interspersed with white me- 
tallic points, which yield easily to the knife. For several 
ays after the stone was taken from the earth it retained a 
strong scent of sulphur. The exterior exhibited several cav- 
—A great event of the kind—several hundred pounds of stone 
orice tha passe the fire ball.—A specimen in the Cabinet of Yale 
College, weighs 36 Ibs —Epiror 
