16 Dr. Chaldni’s Catalogue of Meteoric Stones, 
IV. Fallen Substances, not being Meteoric Stones or Native Iron, 
but which in every appearance and in the most essential points 
agree with Meteoric Stones. - 
(Livy iii. 10, mentions that about 459 years before our 
zra, flesh fell from the sky, which was partly caught up by 
birds in the air, and when on the ground, lay for many days 
without putrifying. If this story be not altogether an inven- 
tion, it is difficult to guess what could have given rise to it.) 
About the year 472 of our zra, on the 6th of November, or 
as some say, the 5th or 11th, there was, probably in the vici- 
nity of Constantinople, a fall of a great quantity of a mephitic 
black dust, accompanied by fiery meteors, which led people 
to apprehend the destruction of the world. 
652. Also a fall of dust near Constantinople, which ex- 
cited terror. 
743. A fall of dust in several places, accompanied by a 
meteor. 
During the middle of the ninth century, blood-coloured 
dust, in several places. 
929. At Bagdad, a reddish sand, after a red appearance 
in the sky. 
1056. In Armenia, red snow. 
1110. In Armenia, the fall of a fiery meteor into the lake 
Van, with much noise, and by which the water turned toa 
blood-colour ; and deep rents were found in the earth. 
1222. Red rain near Viterbo.— Brblioteca Italiana, tom. xix. 
p- 461. 
1416. Red rain in Bohemia. 
? Probably during the fifteenth century, at Lucerne, a li- 
quid like coagulated blood, and a stone with a fiery meteor. 
1501. Red rain in several places. 
1543. Red rain in Westphalia. 
1548, 6th November. Probably in the district of Mansfeld, 
the fall of a substance, like congealed blood, attended by a 
fireball and great noise. 
1557. Friday after Sexagesima, at Schlage in Pomerania, 
large pieces of a substance resembling congealed blood. 
1560, or 1568, or 1571, at Whitsuntide. Red rain in the 
vicinities of Lowen and Emden. 
1560, 24th December. At Littebonne, department de la 
Seine Inferieure, red rain with a fiery meteor. 
? 1562, 5th July. At Stockhausen, a German mile from 
Erfurth, a fall of a substance resembling hair, attended by a 
commotion and extraordinary noise. i . 
1586, 
