THE EARTH. 343 



1796, Feb. 19. A stone of 10 Ib. fell in 

 Portugal. Southey's Letters from Spain. 



" 1798, Dec. 19. Stones fell in Bengal. How- 

 ard, Lord Falentia. 



" 1803, April 26. A great fall of stones took 

 place at Aigle. They were about three thousand 

 in number, and the largest weighed 17 Ib. 



" 1810, Nov. 23. Stones fell at Mortelle, Vil- 

 lerai, and Moulinbrule, in the department of the 

 Loiret ; one of them weighed 40 Ib. and the other 

 20 Ib. Nicholson's Journal, vol. xxxix. p. 158. 



" 1812, April 15. A stone, the size of a child's 

 head, fell at Erxleben. A specimen of it is in the 

 possession of Professor Haussman of Brunswick. 

 Gilbert's Anna!, xl. and xli. 



" 1818, Feb. 15. A great stone appears to have 

 fallen at Limoge, but it has not been disinterred. 

 Gazette de France, Feb. 25. 1818."] 



CHAPTER XXII. 



THE CONCLUSION. 



HAVING thus gone through a particular descrip- 

 tion of the earth, let us now pause for a moment, 

 to contemplate the great picture before us. The 

 universe may be considered as the palace in which 

 the Deity resides, and this earth as one of its 

 apartments. In this, all the meaner races of ani- 

 mated nature mechanically obey him, and stand 

 ready to execute his commands without hesita- 



