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fession, they fancied they already saw the niountains rolling and heaped 
upon them. i 
‘ The alarm was such, that it was not till the 23d of the month that: 
they resolved to dig out this prodigy, of which they knew neither the 
form, the nature, or the substance. They deliberated for a long time, 
whether they should go armed to undertake this operation which ap- 
eared so dangerous ; but Claude Serre, (sexton) justly observed, that 
if it was the devil, neither powder or arms would prevail against him, 
that holy water would be more effectual, and that he would undertake 
to make the evil spirit fly; after which they set themselves to work, 
and after having sunk nearly six feet, they found the aerolite, weigh- 
ing rather more than 202 pounds (English). It was covered witha 
black bituminous varnish, and some parts of it had a sulphurous smell. 
It was requisite to break it to get it out: there still remains a mass 
weighing about 100 pounds. 
All the facts above stated are proved by all the inhabitants of the 
hamlet of Libonnez; and especially Delmas, sen. and jun.; James 
and Claude Serre, Peter Charayre, John Chaudouard, Anthony 
Dumas and his child; and also by Mary Ann Vidal, a young girl of 
about 14 years of age; the two latter, who were less frightened, fol- 
lowed the direction of the stone, and actually found the place where it 
was buried, Concerning all which, we have drawn up the present 
proces-verbal as a continuation of the history of these phenomena, a 
copy of which we shall send to M. the Prefect.—(Drawn up and 
agreed upon at our house, the 25th of June, 1821.) 
We, the Mayor of Juvinas, certify, that three days after, on the 
26th of June, on visiting the place where this stone fell, another was 
found at a short distance from it, which weighed about two pounds and 
@ quarter ; it was covered with a similar varnish, and entirely distinct 
from the first. (A true copy delivered by us, the Mayor of the Com- 
mune of Juvinas, the 2d of July, 1821.) DELAIGUE. 
The Master of Requests, Prefect of Ardéche, certifies that the 
present extract from the proces-verbal, written the 25th of June, 1821, 
by the Sieur Delaigne, Mayor of the Commune of Juvinas, agrees 
precisely with that which was sent officially to the prefecture, and that 
the fragments of the acrolite, which were brought by the Sieur Claude 
Fargier, are of the same nature, and present the same characters as 
that which has been deposited in the Museum of Ardéche. 
Privas, 5th of July, 1821. TEYSONIER. 
IV. Analysis of the Aerolite which fell at Jwvinas. 
M. Laugier states that he has performed four analyses of this stone, 
the first by means of acid, the second by potash, the third by nitric 
acid, with the intention of determining the quantity of sulphur; the 
fourth by means of nitrate of barytes, for the purpose of determining the 
quantity of the potash, which M. Vauquelin had found in this stone, 
although he did not employ this method, the only one which can be 
relied upon. . These several analyses, all agreeing ‘as to the nature of 
the elements of stone, varied slightly with respect to their proportions ; 
a variation which must be attributed to its being deficient in homo- 
geniety in all its parts. 
