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the pieces of stone, nor of any uncommon smell in the 

 latter, although he applied them to his nostrils. He says, 

 that the one piece of stone was about two inches long; that 

 the other piece was 'about six inches long, four inches 

 broad, and four inches thick, blunted at the edges and end; 

 that the fractures of these pieces exacily coincided ; that he 

 does not know whether the fracture was caused by the vio- 

 lence of the fall, or by the mattock; and that he never saw 

 any such stone about the quarry. 



Some davs after, w hen the particulars which have been 

 narrated, became known, a caretnl search was made for 

 these pieces of stone, w-hich had been disregarded, and the 

 first-mentioned piece was soon found; but the largest piece 

 having been used as a block in the quarry, and having iallea 

 amont; rubbish, could not be discovered. Some days after, 

 a fragment of it was detected. Tl^e tv.-o fragments reco- 

 vered make the two extremes of the stone : on the surface 

 they are pretty smooth, and of a black colour ; but in- 

 ternallv they have a grayish appearance. The intermediate 

 part, larger than both, seems as yet to be lost. 



At the village of High Possil, which is within a quar- 

 ter of a nnle of the place where the stone fell, the ncise 

 gave nmch alarm to those who were in the open air; and 

 there, it seems, they thought that the sounds proceeded 

 from south-cast to north-west, agreeably to the report of 

 the three men first mentioned. 



Two njcn at work within a hundred yards of the house 

 of Possil were alarmed by the noise ; they thought it over 

 their heads, and that it resembled the report of a catmon, 

 six times repeated, at equal intervals, with a confused un- 

 comnion sound of ten minutes duration : the noise seemed 

 to begin in the north, and to turn round by the west, south 

 and east to the north. 



The day was cold and cloudy; a little mere cloudy in 

 the north-cast than in the other quarters. 



It maybe proper to remark, though the overseer did not ob- 

 serve the picccsof the stone to have any peculiar smell when he 

 took them out, that when Mr. Craufurd obtained the first 

 piece, it had a fishy and foetid smell, and that he noticed the 

 second also to have the same flavour, but in a less degree. 

 Another circumstance also deserves particular notice, be- 

 cause, coining from cliildrcn, they could not possibly adapt 

 their talc to the circumstances required by the nature ot the 

 phaenomenon, and it therefore demands the more implicit cre- 

 dit. 'I'hc eldt-st boy says he saw the smoke moving very 

 •? A 3 quick 



