6 Dr. Chladni’s Catalogue of Meteoric Stones 
1280. Near Alexandria in Egypt, a stone or mass of iron. 
1304, 1st of October. Near Friedland or Friedburg, many 
red-hot stones and masses of iron. 
? 1328, 9th of January. Perhaps stones, in Mortahiah and 
Dakhaliah. 
? 1339, 13th of July. Perhaps stones, in Silesia. 
? 1868. Perhaps iron, in Oldenburg. 
1379, 26th of May. Stones near Minden in Hanover. 
1425. A meteoric stone in the island of Java. 
? 1438. Near Roa in Spain, a great many very light stones. 
1474. Near Viterbo, two large stones.—Biblioteca Italiana, 
tom. xix. p. 461, Sept. 1820. 
? During the same century a stone seems to have fallen near 
Lucca, accompanied by a substance takenfor coagulated blood. 
1491, 22d of March. A stone near Rivolta de Bassi, not 
far from Crema. 
* 1492, 7th November. The well-known fall of a large stone 
near Ensisheim. F 
1496, 26th or 28th of January. Stones between Cesena and 
Bertinoro, and in the vicinity of Forli. 
? Perhaps during this century, or at the beginning of the fol- 
lowing, a stone near Brussels. 
(I forbear mentioning several accounts of that period in 
which the fall of hailstones seems to have been mistaken for 
that of meteorites.) 
1511, 4th of September, or a few days after. A great fall of 
meteoric stones near Crema, not far from the river Adda. 
(Some authors, misunderstanding the words prope Abduam, 
have made Abdua of it.) 
1516. In the province of Se-tschuan in China, six stones. 
1520, in May. In Arragon, three stones. 
? 1528, 29th of June. Large stones near Augsburg. 
? 1540, 28th of April. A large stone and several smaller 
ones in Limousin. 
Between 1540 and 1550. A large mass of iron in the 
forest near Neunhof, between Leipzig and Grimma. (Some 
authors have changed Neunhof into Neuholem.) 
About the middle of the same century, iron in several parts 
of Piedmont. 
1552, 19th May. A large fall of stones near Schleusingen, 
&c. (In several French and English periodicals Schleusingen 
has been confounded with Schleisheim near Munich.) 
1559. Near Miskolz in Hungary, five large stones, or perhaps 
masses of iron. 
1561, 17th May. Stones or masses of iron near Torgau 
and Eilenburg. 
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