44 Account of a Fall of Meteoric Stories. 



1. The most northerly fall was within the limits of 

 Huntington, on the border of Weston, about 40 or 50 

 rods east of the great road from Bridgeport to Newtown, 

 in a cross road, and contiguous to the house of Mr. Mer- 

 win Burr. Mr. Burr was standing in the road, in front 

 of his house, when the stone fell. The noise produced 

 by its collision with a rock of granite, on which it 

 struck, was very loud. Mr. Burr was within 50 feet, 

 and immediately searched for the body, but, it being 

 still dark, he did not find it till half an hour after. By 

 the fall, some of it was reduced to powder, and the rest 

 of it was broken into very small fragments, which were 

 thrown around to the distance of 20 or 30 feet. The 

 granite rock was stained at the place of contact with a 

 deep lead- colour. The largest fragment which remained 

 did not exceed the size of a goose-egg, and this Mr. 

 Burr found to be still warm to his hand. There was 

 reason to conclude, from all the circumstances, that this 

 stone must have weighed about twenty or twenty-five 

 pounds. 



Mr. Burr had a strong impression that another stone- 

 fell in an adjoining field, and it was confidently believed 

 that a large mass had fallen into a neighbouring swamp, 

 but neither of these had been found. It is probable 

 that the stone, whose fall has now been described, to- 

 gether with any other masses which may have fallen at 

 the same time, was thrown from the meteor at the first 

 explosion. 



2. The masses projected at the second explosion seem 

 to have fallen principally at and in the vicinity of Mr. 



