Meteoric Stones. 93 



left would illustrate the position of the trees first uprooted, as 

 these lay as when first crushed by the approach of the whirlwind. 

 "Many curious facts illustrative of the force of the wind was 

 related by the inhabitants in and near the ])lace. A farmer at- 

 tempted to drive his team of horses to the barn, but the tempest 

 was too soon upon him. When the rush was over, and it was 

 but seemingly a moment, he found the barn torn to pieces^ himself 

 about thirty rods in one direction from it, and his horses as many 

 rods the other, and what was most remarkable with scarcely a 

 fragment of the harness upon them. A wagon was blown away, 

 and a month afterwards one of the wheels had not been found. 

 A Iiouse standing near the Cfcnesee river, and a little out of the 

 line of the gale, was completely covered with mud that must 

 hav^e been taken from the bed of the river. And appearances 

 render it very evident that near the centre of the whirl the water 

 was entirely taken from the channel," 



Art. YIIL — On Meteoric Stones.^ — From the Annual Account of 

 the progress of Physics and Chemistry, by Berzelius, in the 

 Annual Reports of the progress of the sciences by the members 

 of the Royal Academy of Science in Sweden. 



ArsberUttelser om Vetenskapernas Framsteg. D. 31. Mars, 1835. Stockholm. 



Translated for this Journal, by Rev. W. A. Larned. 



Meteoric stones, as inorganic masses occurring on the surface 

 of the earthj present also an object for mineralogy, the more in- 

 teresting since they give us information of the mineral products 



* Berzelius published a paper on Meteoric Stones in the Transactions of the 

 Royal Academy of Science, for 1834, pp. 115—183 This was translated in sev- 

 eral Scientific Journals in Europe. An abstract appeared in the London and Edin- 

 bur*'h Phil. Mag. vol. ix, pp. 429 — 441, from which an account of the fall of the 

 meleoric stone at Blansko^ and of its analysis, was published in this Journal^ 

 vol. xsx pp. 175 — 176. Berzelius himself, made an abstract of his paper in the 

 Reports of the progress of the sciences for 1835, pp. 230—238, which is here transla- 

 ted entire. As a recent analysis of meteoric iron from Clairborne, Ala , by Dr. C. 

 T. Jackson, published in this Journal, vol. \xxiv, pp. 332—337, made known the 

 existence of chlorine, and a still more recent one of meteoric iron from Ashville, 

 N. C, by Prof C. U. Shepard, detected not only chlorine, but also uncombined sili- 

 con, neither of which are mentioned by Berzelius, it was thought a translation of 

 the present paper would be interesting. — Tr, 



