and Masses of Meteoric Iron, &c. 7 
(There is an account of a fall of stones in 1564, the Ist 
of March, between Mecheln and Brussels, which seems to be 
fabulous. ) ; 
? 1572, 9th January. Perhaps a fall of stones near Thorn. 
1580, 27th May. A large fall of stones near Norten, not 
far from Gottingen. 
1581, 26th July. A stone at Niederreissen near Buttelstadt 
in Thuringia. 
1583, 9th January. A stone or mass of iron near Castro- 
villari in Abruzzo. 
1583, 2d March. A stone in Piedmont. 
1596, 1st March. Stones at Crevalcore in Ferrara. 
Probably during the same century, a stone in the kingdom 
of Valencia in Spain. 
1608, in the 2d half of August. In Styria, very large stones, 
together with a substance resembling blood. 
1618. A metallic mass in Bohemia. 
1621, 17th April. A mass of iron, near Lahore in India. 
1622, 10th Jan. In Devonshire, a large stone. 
1628, 9th April. In Berkshire, a stone. 
1634, 27th October. In the county of Charollois, in the 
former duchy of Burgundy, a large fall of stones. 
? 1635, 7th July. Perhaps a stone near Calcein the Vicentine. 
1636, 6th March. A very large stone between Sagan and 
Dubrow, in Silesia. 
1637 (not 1627), 29th November. A stone on Mount Vai- 
sier in Provence. 
1642, 4th August. A stone in Suffolk. 
Between 164% and 1644. Stones on-board a ship in the In- 
dian Ocean. 
1647, 18th Feb. A stone near Zwickau. 
1647, in August. A fall of stones near Stolzenu in West- 
halia. 
t ? Between 1647 and 1654. A ball weighing eight pounds, 
and therefore probably a mass of iron, is said to have fallen on 
the deck of a vessel in the Indian Ocean, and to have killed 
two persons. 
1650, 6th August. A stone at Dordrecht. 
1654, 30th March. A large fall of stones on the island of 
Fuhnen. 
About the middle of the same century, a large stone at 
Warsaw. 
Likewise at Milan, a small stone which killed a Franciscan 
friar. 
(An account of stones said to have fallen in 1667 at Shiraz 
seems to be fabulous). 
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