8 Dr. Chaldni’s Catalogue of Meteorie Stones, 
1668 (not 1662, 1663, nor 1672), the 19th or 21st June. 
Very large stones in the Veronese. 
1671, 27th February. Stones in the Ortenau in Suabia. 
?1673. Stones near Dietlingen in Baden, (Perhaps only 
the same event mistaken.) 
1674, 6th October. Two large stones in the canton of 
Glarus. 
? About 1675 or 1677. Near Copinsha, one of the Orkneys, 
a stone fell on a ship. (Perhaps a mistaken repetition of the 
former account.) 
1677, 28th May. At Ermindorf near Grossenhain, stones 
differing from other meteoric stones, and which, according to 
their appearance, as well as to Balduin’s analysis, contained 
copper, which some other circumstances render still more 
probable. 
[The following instances are cited by Dr. Noeggerath in 
Schweigger’s Neues Journal, Band. xiv. p. 357, from Beccher’s 
Laboratorium, published in 1680: their dates are of course 
prior to that period. 
Petermann Eterlein relates, in his Swiss Chronicle, that in 
a great storm a mass of iron fell from the heavens, together 
with a number of stones; and that the iron measured sixteen 
feet in length, fifteen in width, and two in thickness. 
Paulus Merula says, in his Cosmographia, that six iron axes 
had fallen from heaven; upon which Beccher remarks that 
he does not believe them to have been really azes, but that 
they might have had the form of those weapons, as the stones 
which fall have, and whence they have received the name of 
Donneriixte, or thunder-azes, in the German language.—This 
relation seems doubtful, as the stone weapons of the aboriginal 
inhabitants of Europe have been called thunder-bolts, &c. in 
every language. Epir. ] 
(The account of the stones said to have fallen in 1686, the 
18th of May, in London, near Gresham College, is to be erased 
from my work, page 239; since 1t appears from the work of 
Edward King, which I saw subsequently, at p. 20, that it was, 
like the event of 1791, nothing but hail. ‘This instance, to- 
gether with many others, proves how necessary it is not to trust 
to second-hand accounts, but always to refer to the first source.) 
1697, 13th January. Stones near Siena. 
1698, 19th May. A large stone near Waltring, canton of Bern. 
1706, 7th June. A large stone near Larissa in Thessaly. - 
1715, 11th April. Stones near Stargard in Pomerania. 
—Gilbert’s Annals, vol. Ixxi. (1822) p. 215. 
1722, 5th June. Stones near the convent of Schefftlar in 
the district of I’reissingen. 
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