48 Account of a Fall of Meteoric Stones. 



It is probable that the four stones last described were 

 all projected at the second explosion ; and, should one 

 be discovered on the neighbouring hill, we must, with- 

 out doubt, refer it to the same avulsion. 



3. Last of all, we hasten to what appears to have 

 been the catastrophe of this wonderful phenomenon. 



A mass of stone, far exceeding the united weight of 

 all which we have hitherto described, fell in a field be- 

 longing to Mr. Elijah Seel)-, and within 30 rods of his 

 house. 



A circumstance attended the fall of this which seems 

 to have been peculiar. Mr. Elihu Staples, a man of 

 integrity, lives on the hill, at the bottom of which this 

 body fell, and witnessed the first appearance, progress, 

 and explosion of the meteor. After the last explosion, 

 a rending noise, like that of a whirlwind, passed along to 

 the east of his house, and immediately over his orchard, 

 which is on the declivity of the hill. At the same in- 

 stant a streak of light passed over the orchard in a large 

 curve, and seemed to pierce the ground. A shock was 

 felt, and a report heard like that of a heavy body falling 

 to the earth ; but no conception being entertained of the 

 real cause (for no one in the vicinity, with whom we 

 conversed, appealed to have ever heard of the fall of 

 stones from the skies), it was supposed that lightning had 

 struck the ground. Three or four hours after the event, 

 Mr. Seely went into his field to look after his cattle. He 

 found that some of them had leaped into the adjoining 

 enclosure, and all exhibited strong indications of terror. 



