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Meteorite. binet in Vienna. Sometime about the same period, 

 fell in Piedmont. Mercati and Scaliger. No- 

 vember 6, 1M<. According to Spangenberg and Bo- 

 naventure tie St. Amable, a blackish mass, accompa- 

 nied with a red substance, like coagulated blood, and 

 with a load noi<e, fell at Mansfeldt in Thuringia. 

 May ' From the same source we learn, that 



a shower of stones made great haroc in the environs 

 of ScbJensingen, also in Thuringia. That this was not 



stogen. a hail shower is obvious from the circumstance that 

 Spangenberg carried several of the stones with him to 

 F.tsleben. 1 J59. It i* related in the 16th vol. of the 



Missoc. Brttlaw (>,///. tiun, and in Isthuanfius's History of Hun- 

 gary, that fire stones, said to be preserved in the 

 treasury of Vienna, each of the sixe of a man's bead, 

 exceedingly heavv, of a rnsty.iron colour, and emit- 

 ting a strong smell of sulphur, fell from the heavens, 

 explosions and a dreadful concussion of the air, 

 at Miscoz. in Trantylrania Whitsuntide, 1560. Red 

 rain at Embden, l.ouvain, Ac. Fromond. December 



** ?4, ]'<'<. A fiery meteor, and red rain at Ullebonne. 



UDfCHcme. ^'olalit Conn. May 17, 1561. A stone fell at 1 



borg, in the Torgau. Crtner and de Bod. May 87, 

 ""fr 1580. Stones fell near (i .ttingen. Bamge.Jo]y 86, 

 1581. Between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, 

 a stone, weighing 39 Ib. of a blue and brownish co- 

 lour, arid which gave fire with steel, fell from the air, 

 in Thurin. -i explosion which shook the earth, 



and accompanied by the appearance of a small light, 

 which was supposed to be a fire-ball, the heavens be- 

 ing, in other respecU, serene. It sunk into the soil 

 to the depth of a yard and a quarter, tossed up the 

 earth to twice the height of a man ; and was at first to 

 hot that nobody could touch it. After some time had 

 elapsed, it was carried to Dresden. Bmbard s CAro- 

 niclt of Tkurinria, Oiearhu January 9, 1583, stone* 

 tCssaniQ. fell at CastroviUari. Caito. Mercati, and ImprralL 



laci. Ides of January, 1583. Mercati mentions, that some 



I: .. of the inhabitants of Rosa, in I-avadie, who were walk- 



ing on the neighbouring height*, in serene weather, 

 observed a thick black cloi . exploded near 



them with such violence, that they fell almost sense 

 less to the ground, and that, on recovering from their 

 alarm, thry immediately repaired to the spot, and 

 found a stone of about SO Ib.. which resembled iron. 

 ' - ?. A stone, of the sixe of a hand gre- 



FMnoei. nade, fell in Piedmont A stone fell in Italy. 



Imt -ember 3, 1586. A great quatr 



red and blackish matter, which burned some plaiiku, 

 and was accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell 



Verd. *t Verden, in Hanover. Solomon, Senator of Bremen. 

 June 9. r*s)1 . Angelas, in the Annalet Martkite, and 



m. IMCOI affirm, that some large stones fell at Kunersdorf. 



*"f- 1591. A shower of blood at La Magdel 



L* M<d. Orleans. Isman, in V< .rtUe. 



U.IK. ,rch 1, i:.'Xi, stones fell at Crevalcore. Mittarelli. 



CMrataore. Sometime in the course of the sixteenth century, and 

 not, as alleged, in 1603. a stone, exhibiting metallic 

 reins, is reported to have descended in the province of 



Its);. 



Valencia, in Spain. Ctesitu, and the Jtsuitt of Coi'm- Meteorlt*. 

 bra, in their remarks on Aristotle's Meteorology. Au- ^"^^~~ * 

 gust, 1618, a great fall of stones, with a shower of VaJe "*'*- 

 blood, occurred in Styria. /> Hammer. 1618. A Styria. 

 metallic mass fell in Bohemia. Krotiland. Bohemia. 



April IT, It) JO, die Finperor, Jehangire, in his Me- 

 moirs written by himself, in the Persian language, and Jalindher. 

 translated by Colonel Kirkpatrick. from nn old MS. 

 thus relate* the fall of a piece of meteoric iron. 



" A. H. 1030, or, IbUi year of the reign. The fol- 

 lowing is among the extraordinary occurrences of this 

 period. 



" Early on the 30th of Furverdeen, of the present 

 year*, and in the the Eastern quarter (of the heavens,) 

 there arose in one of the villages of the Purgunnah of 

 Jalindhert, such a great and tremendous noise, as had 

 nearly, by -its dreadful nature, deprived the inhabitants 

 of the place of their sense*. During this noise, a lu- 

 minous body (was observed) to fall from above on the 

 earth, suggesting to the beholders the idea that the lir- 

 mament was raining fire. In a short time, the nois* 

 having subsided, and the inhabitant* having recovered 

 from their alarm, a courier was dispatched (by them) 

 to Mahommed Syecd, the Aumil I of the aforesaid 

 Pnrgunnah, to advertise him of this event. The Au- 

 mil, instantly mounting (his horse,) proceeded to the 

 spot (where the luminous body had fallen.) Here he 

 pamired the earth, to the extent of ten or twelve gux, 

 m length and breadth, to be burnt to such a degree, 

 that not the least trace of verdure, or blade of grass re- 

 mained ; nor had the heat (which had been communi- 

 cated to it ) yet subsided entirely. 



" Mahommed Syeed hereupon directed the aforesaid 

 space of ground to be dug up ; when, the deeper it 

 was dug, the mater was the heat of it found to be. 

 At length, a lump of iron made it* appearance, the 

 ch was so violent, that one might have sup- 

 posed it to have been taken from a furnace. After 

 some time it became cold, when the Aumil conveyed 

 it to his own habitation, from whence he aftcrw.ird 

 dispatched it, in a sealed bag, to court. 



i! . I had (thin substance) weighed in my pre- 

 sence. _-ht was one hundred ami ixty tolah||. 

 1 it to a *killtil artisan, with orders to make 

 of it a sabre, a knife, and a dagger. The workman 

 (soon) reported, that die substance was not malleable, 

 lot! tknerrd into piect* under the honor: 



on this, I ordered it to be mixed with other 

 iron. Conformably to my orders, three parts oi 

 trow y lightning^ were mixed with one part of com- 

 mon iron ; and from the mixture were made two sabres, 

 one knife, and one dag;.- 



" By the addition of the common iron, the (new) 

 substance acquired a (fine) temper ; the blade (faliri- 

 oated from it) proving a* elastic as the most genuine 

 blades of Ulinanny*. and of the South, and bending, 

 like them, without leaving any mark of the IK-I 

 had them tried in my presence, and found them rut 

 excellently ; as w ell (indeed) as the best genuine xabre*. 



- The am / Kaiiiiiisai of this year. (A. II. 1030,) ssss mpmi , il with Ssftodar the J7th at RubU ul Akhii ; ca^ouwtlr. 

 It* aoth of f *! fell on ts Mth at Jmani W Omml. or. A.I). l>, 



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