340 METEORS. 



to my house to see them, say they never saw such 

 before.' 



This stone was analyzed by Mr Leybert, a gentleman 

 of distinguished skill in this peculiarly difficult kind of 

 investigation. According to his analysis, the stone was 

 found to be composed of the following ingredients : 



[metrical Moisture. 

 4069 Loss and Hygro- 



All the Meteorites, in whatever part of the world they 

 have fallen, are composed of nearly the same ingredients. 

 Where do these stones comt; from 1 This is a question 

 which as yet remains unanswered. We may safely infer 

 that these bodies have not been thrown from any terres- 

 trial volcano; for no native minerals of a similar nature 

 have been found in any part of the globe ; neither can 

 the phenomena attending them be accounted for upon 

 this hypothesis ; neither are there any known volcanos 

 in 'many parts of the world in which they have fallen, 

 frotn which they could have been thrown ; some have 

 supposed that they were formed in the upper parts of the 

 atmosphere. But there are no known laws of nature 

 which allow us to assign them this origin. A splendid 

 theory has been erected, which supposes them to have 

 been thrown from some volcano of the moon. This is 

 the most probable supposition, still it is not free from 

 many difficulties. The Journal of Philosophical Trans- 

 actions remarks, that it appears impossible to ascribe 

 these phenomena to a formation in the superior parts of 

 the atmosphere, or to the irruptions of terrestrial volca- 

 nos ; but it is possible for such masses to be projected 



