4 Dr. Chladni’s Catalogue of Meteoric Stones 
for the fall of meteoric stones); and where I cannot omit I 
shall insert them in parentheses, for the purpose of showing 
that they are extraneous. Ifuncertain, I shall prefix to them 
a note of interrogation. Those mentioned in my work are pre- 
ceded by an asterisk. 
§ II. Falls of Meteoric Stones and Masses of Iron. 
A. Before the Christian Atira. 
Division 1.—Containing those the time of the fall of which 
can be indicated with some degree of certainty. 
? 1478 B.C. In Crete, on the Cybeline mountain, the stone 
considered as the symbol of Cybele, with which Pythagoras 
was initiated into the mysteries of the Id@i Dactyli. 
(The narrative in the book of Joshua of stones having fallen 
from heayen probably alludes to a hail-storm.) 
? 1403. Perhaps a mass of iron fell on Mount Ida in Crete. 
1200. Stones preserved in the temple at Orchomenos. 
? 705 or 704. The Ancyle: most probably a lump of iron 
somewhat flattened. 
654. Stones on the Albanian mountain. 
644. In China. 
465. A large stone near Aigos-potamos. 
Not long before or after. A stone near Thebes. 
211. A remarkable fall of a stone near Tong-Kien in China. 
During the period of the second Punic war, probably about 
206 or 205. Fiery stones. 
192. In China. 
176. A stone in agro Crustumino in the Lake of Mars. 
99 or 89. Lateribus coctis pluit, probably at Rome. 
89. Stones in China. 
56 or 52. In Lucania (a district which consisted of part 
of the present Abruzzo, Apulia, and Calabria), spongy iron. 
(I believe that I am in possession of a small fragment of this 
iron, as I shali have occasion to show in sect. iii. B.) 
? Perhaps stones, perhaps hail, near Acilla. 
38, 29, 22, 19, 12, 9, 6, in the first moon, and 6, in the 
ninth moon. Stones in China. 
Division 2.— The time of the fall of the following is indeter- 
minable. 
The stone which fell at Pessinus in Phrygia, which was 
considered as a symbol of the Mother of the Gods, and carried 
to Rome by Scipio Nasica. 
The stone considered as a symbol of Phoebus, and brought 
from Syria to Rome by Heliogabalus. ; 
A stone 
