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not reach New Haven until two or three days had passed, 

 when my friend and colleague, Professor Kingsley, accom- 

 panied me to Weston, which is about twenty-five miles west 

 from New Haven. We visited all the places where stones 

 were reported to have fallen ; we examined most of the wit- 

 nesses as well as the attendant circumstances, and brought 

 away a considerable number of specimens. We published 

 an account of the facts in the " Connecticut Herald," 

 of New Haven, which was extensively copied into other 

 papers. I afterwards made a chemical examination of the 

 masses, and in the course of the season a revised account, 

 with the chemical analysis, was communicated to the Phil- 

 osophical Society of Philadelphia, which was published in 

 their transactions, and afterwards republished in the memoirs 

 of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. The 

 case was deemed so interesting and important that the pub- 

 lished account was read aloud in the Philosophical Society 

 of London, and in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. It 

 was admitted to be one of the most extensive and best 

 attested occurrences of the kind that has happened, and of 

 which a record has been preserved. 



The exciting effect produced on his own mind, as 

 well as on the minds of others, by the investigation 

 of the Weston Meteor, may be gathered from the 

 subjoined letter which Mr. Silliman wrote from Phil- 

 adelphia to his friend, Mr. Kingsley. 



TO PROFESSOR KINGSLEY. 



PHILADELPHIA, January 23, 1808. 

 Saturday Morning. 



DEAR KINGSLEY, I am by no means ripe for an ulti- 

 mate account of everything, yet, knowing your keenness 

 for letters, I now begin a few memoranda. We arrived on 

 Wednesday morning, after riding all night through New 



