and Masses of Meteoric Iron, Sc. 9 
(The pretended fall of metal in 1731, near Lessay, was no- 
thing but a misunderstanding of an electric phosphorescence 
of rain.) 
1738, 18th October. A meteoric stone in the province of 
Avignon (badly described by a person ignorant of the sub- 
ject). 
' 1740, 25th October. Stones near Rasgrad on the Danube. 
(The stone said to have fallen in Greenland, in the winter 
of 1740-41, was nothing but a piece of rock, which having 
detached itself from a hill, rolléd down into the valley.) 
1750, 11th October. Stones near Coutances, in the de- 
partment de la Manche, or Normandy. 
*1751, 26th May. ‘The well-known mass of iron near 
Hradschina in the province of Agram. 
* 1753, 5th July. Stones near Tabor in Bohemia. 
1753, in September. ‘Two stones near Laponas in Bresse. 
1755, in July. A stone near Terranova in Calabria. 
1766, in the middle of July. A stone near Alboreto, not 
far from Modena. 
?1766, 15th August. Perhaps a stone near Novellara, 
* 1768. A stone near Lucé, department de la Sarthe. 
* 1768, 20th November. A stone near Maurkirchen in 
Bavaria. 
1773, 19th September. A stone near Rodach in the duchy 
of Coburg. 
1775 or 1776. Stones near Obruteza in Volhynia. 
About 1776 or 1777, in January or February. Stones near 
Fabbriano. 
1779. A fall of stones near Petriswood in Ireland, in the 
county of Westmeath. 
1780, 11th April. Stones near Beeston in England. 
1782. A large stone near Turin. 
1785, 19th February. A fall of stones in the vicinity of 
Eichstadt. 
* 1787, 1st October. Stones in the government of Char- 
cow. 
* 1790 (not 1789), 24th July. A very considerable fall of 
stones near Barbotan, Juliac, &c. 
1791, 17th May. Stones near Castel-Berardenga in Tus- 
cany. 
(‘The account of a fall of stones on the 20th of October 1791, 
near Menabilly in Cornwall, mentioned in my work, page 261, 
must be expunged; since, according to the work of Ed. King, 
pp- 18 and 19, it was nothing but hail, as may also be seen by 
the drawing of some of the larger fragments.) 
Vol. 67. No. 333. Jan. 1826. B * 1794, 
