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[Dec. 15, 1887 



caused to tinkle. Cabin deck is on the north side of the 

 Arkansas River. 



Mr. B. Caraway says it was heard by fully 1000 people, and 

 that he heard two loud reports at Alma, Crawford County, 75 

 miles away, at 3 o'clock on March 27, 1886. The report was 



also heard at Russellville, and in the adjoining county of 

 Pope. 



Prof. H. A. Newton, who has kindly interested himself in 

 this matter, says that the data furnished indicate that the mass 

 must have fallen nearly from the zenith. This was the direction 



Fig. 2. — Lower Side. 

 Johnson County, Arkansas. (Scale two-nintlis.) 



of the end of its path, the earlier portion being more inclined 

 to the vertical, as the path must be affected by gravity and the 

 resistance of the air. The earlier direction must have been 

 from the north-east, and more nearly from the east than the 

 north. 



The mass is in general quite flat and very irregular, resem - 

 bling strongly a mass of molten metal thrown on the ground 

 and then pitted. The illustration of the Agrain''' mass figured 



2 " Beitrage zur Geschichte und Kenntnlss Meteorischer Stein- unl 

 Metall-massen," by Dr. Carl von Schreibers. Wien, 1820, folio, plate viii. 



