46 Account of a Fall of Meteoric Stones. 



Bronson, Esq., of Greenfield, with the liberal view of 

 presenting it to some public institution. 



Six days after, another mass was discovered, half a 

 mile north-west from Mr. Prince's. The search was 

 induced by the confident persuasion of the neighbours, 

 that they heard it fall near the spot where it was actually 

 found buried in the earth, weighing from seven to ten 

 pounds. It was found by Gideon Hall and Isaac Fair- 

 child. It was in small fragments, having fallen on a 

 globular detached mass of gneiss rock, which it split in 

 two, and by which it was itself shivered to pieces. 



The same men informed us that they suspected ano- 

 ther stone had fallen in the vicinity, as the report had 

 been distinctly heard, and could be referred to a parti- 

 cular region somewhat to the east. Returning to the 

 place, after an excursion of a few hours to another part 

 of the town, we were gratified to find the conjecture 

 verified, by the actual discovery of a mass of thirteen 

 pounds weight, which had fallen half a mile to the north- 

 east of Mr. Prince's. Having fallen in a ploughed field, 

 without coming into contact with a rock, it was broken 

 only into two principal pieces, one of which, possessing 

 all the characters of the stone in a remarkable degree, 

 we purchased : for it had now become an article of 

 sale. It was urged that it had pleased Heaven to rain 

 down this treasure upon them, and they would bring 

 their thunderbolts to the best market they could. This 

 was, it must be confessed, a wiser mode of managing 

 the business, than that which had been adopted by some 

 others, at an earlier period of these discoveries. Strongly 



