18 PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP. I. 



Alsace Nov 7th 1492, when the Emperor Maximilian, then King of the 

 Romans, was on the point of engaging with the French army ; this mass, 

 which weighed 270 pounds, was preserved in the cathedral of Lnsisheim 

 till the beginning of the French Revolution, when it was conveyed to the 



PU Meteor?c a stone whi&ftU at Reichstadt, in Bohemia, June 22d, 1723. 



One of the stones which fell, July 3d, 1753, at Plan, in the circle of 



Bechin, Bohemia, and which contains a great proportion of attractable 



^Portion of a stone which fell at Maurkirchen, in Bavaria, Nov. 20th, 

 A meteorite which fell at Bobric, government of Charkow, Ucraine, 



Specimens of those that were seen to fall at Barbotan, at Roquefort, 

 and at Juliac, in the Landes of Gascony, July 24th, 1790. 



One of a dozen stones, of various weights and dimensions, that fell at 

 Sienna in Tuscany, June 16th, 1794. 



The meteoric stone, weighing 56 pounds, which fell near Wold Cot- 

 tage, in the parish of Thwing, East Riding, Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 1795. 



Fragment of a stone of 20 pounds, which fell in the commune of Sales, 

 near Villefranche, in the department of the Rh6ne, March 12th, 1798. 



Specimens of stones that fell near the city of Benares, in the East Indies, 

 Dec. 19th, 1798 ; presented by Sir Joseph Banks and W. Marsden, Esq. 



Entire and broken specimens of the meteoric stones of which a shower 

 was seen to descend at Aigle, in the department of the Orne, April 26th, 

 1803. 



Meteorite which fell at Fossil, near Glasgow, April 5th, 1804. 



Fragment of that which fell, June 27th, 1807, near Timochin, Smo- 

 lensk, Russia. 



Fragment of one of those that were seen to fall at "VVeston, in Con- 

 necticut, Dec. 14th, 1807. 



Fragment of one of several meteorites that fell, April 19th, 1S08, at 

 Casiguano, near Borgo St. Domino, in the Duchy of Parma. 



Two of the meteorites with shining black surfaces, fallen, May 22d, 

 1808, at Stannern, in Moravia; one of them presented by H.I.M. the 

 Emperor of Austria. 



Two fragments of the Tipperary meteorite which fell in August, 1810 ; 

 it contains quartz globules of a green colour, owing to oxide of nickel. 



A fragment from one of those of Berlanguillas, in Catalonia, July 8th, 

 1811. 



A fragment of one weighing 66 pounds, which fell, August 5th, 1812, 

 near Chantonnay, between Nantes and La Rochelle, Department of the 

 Vendee. 



Fragment of the meteoric stone which fell at Adare, in the county of 

 Limerick, Ireland, September 10th, 1813. 



Fragment of the stone which fell, in March 1814, in the vicinity of 

 Wiburg, in Russian Finland. 



Fragment of one of those which fell, Sept. 5th. 1814, at Agen, in the 

 Pyrenees. 



A portion of the meteorite of Chassigny, near Langres, Dep. of the 

 Upper Marne, which fell on the 3d of October, 1815. 



