Account of a Fall of Meteoric Stones. 43 



pearances which it assumed in other places, leaving this 

 task to others who have the means of performing it more 

 accurately ; while we proceed to detail the consequences 

 which followed the explosions and apparent extinction 

 of this luminary. 



We allude to the fall of a number of masses of stone 

 in several places, principally within the town of Weston. 

 The places which had been well ascertained at the pe- 

 riod of our investigation were six. The most remote 

 were about 9 or 10 miles distant from each other, in a 

 line differing little from the course of the meteor. It is 

 therefore probable, that the successive masses fell in this 

 order, the most northerly first, and the most southerly 

 last. We think we are able to point out three principal 

 places where stones have fallen, corresponding with the 

 three loud cannon-like reports, and with the three leaps 

 of the meteor, observed by Mr. Staples. There were 

 some circumstances common to all the cases. There 

 was, in every instance, immediately after the explosions 

 had ceased, a loud whizzing or roaring noise in the air, 

 observed at all the places, and, so far as was ascertained, 

 at the moment of the fall. It excited in some the idea 

 of a tornado ; in others, of a large cannon-shot in rapid 

 motion ; and it filled all with astonishment and appre- 

 hension of some impending catastrophe. In every in- 

 stance immediately after this, was heard a sudden and 

 abrupt noise, like that of a ponderous body striking the 

 ground in its fall. Excepting one, the stones were 

 more or less broken. The most important circum- 

 stances of the particular cases were as follows : 



