‘js not furprifing, when we confider the great diftance. It 
238 _ Account of a remarkable 
Some flones were feen to fall, which, when found, weighed 
18 or 20 pounds, and which had funk into the earth from. 
two to three feet. Iwas told alfo that fome were found 
which weighed 50 pounds. M. de C. Barbotan procured 
one weighing 18 pounds, which he tranfmitted to the Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Paris. I examined a {mall ftone which 
was brought to me, and found it very heavy in proportion to 
its fize: it was black on the outfide; of a greyifh colour in 
the infide, and interfperfed with a number of fmall fhining 
metallic particles. . On firiking it with a piece of fteel, it 
produced a few fmall dark red fparks, not very lively. A 
tmineralogift, to whom a like piece of ftone from the fame 
neteor was fhown at Paris, defcribed it as a kind of grey, 
flag mixed with calcareous fpar, the furface of which exhi- 
bited vitrified, blackifh calx of iron. Iwas told alfo that 
fome ftones were found totally vitrified. 
This meteor was feen at Bayonne, Auch, Pau, Tarbes, 
and.even at Bourdeaux and Thouloufe. I learned that in 
the laft-mentioned place it excited no great attention; which 
appeared there only fomewhat brighter than thofe fhooting 
ftars which are feen from time to time; and after it burft, © 
- there was heard a hollow report almoft like a diftant clap of 
thunder. 
Had ‘it been accurately obferved at Auch and Pau what 
ftars were ebfeured by the vapour that arofe from the burfting 
of the metebr, the real height of it might have been thence 
© determined with precifion. 
Such, fays’Profeffor Chladni, is the account given by 
Baudin of this meteor; the phenomena of which he endea- 
vours to explain from accumulations in the upper parts of 
the atmofphere. 
According to all the obfervations hitherto made with any 
accuracy ow fire-balls, the’ height at which they were firft 
perceived was always very confiderable;. and by comparing 
the 
