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ow. tAhbt BamnUot, ccnle*a*t 

 dtvertet rtckercktt el o6*erwrwu phytiouu, par le Sieur 

 Legallois, we make the ensuing extract : 



' One of the members presents fragment of two 

 tone* which fell near Verona, one of which weighed 

 BOO pound*, and the other 200 pound*. The stones," 

 he says, " fell during the night, when the weather wa 

 quite mild and fettled. They teemed to be all on fire, 

 and came from above, but in a slanting direction, and 

 with a tremendous noiie. This prodigy terribly alarm- 

 ad three or four hundred eye-witnesses, who were 

 puzzled what to think of it. These stones fell with 

 inch rapidity, that they formed a ditch, which, af- 

 ter the noise and flam* had ceased, the spectators ven- 

 tured to approach, and examine them more nearly. 

 They then sent them to Verona, where they were de- 

 posited under care of the Academy ; and that teamed 

 body sent fragment* of them to different places. This 

 account induced the Society to consider the fragment 

 in question with particular attention ; and they remark- 

 ed that it WM of yellowish colour, very easily reduci- 

 ble to powder, and that it ameUad of sulphur." In the 

 course of examining one of these atones, M. Langier. 

 profeasor of pharmacy at r ana, detected in it, by moans 

 of the catutk alkali, the presence of chrome. 



FaiiajarywT, \<~\- %* M M. Smth. OH. A*. 

 75. Some stones fell m the Mda near Uietling, and 



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d,u de Grmmit, and Memori* aMb Sonet* Coiomiari* 



i . Schemer afins this date 



to the descent of two Urge tone* in the canton of Cla- 

 ras Between Ifo73 snd 1677. a stone I. II into a fih- 

 ing boat near Copinsha, hi the Orkney*. Wallace's Ac- 

 count f Orkney, Genl. Mag. " The air and dood* 

 Her*,'* says Dr. Wallace, " by the operation of the HOI, 

 do sometime* generate several things ; at some year* 

 ince. some Isberme*) fishing half* league from land, 

 over against topiniha, in a t.ir day, there fell down 

 from the air a .tone aboot the bignes* of a foot-ball, 



Metpril*. 



wbica tefl m the middle of the boa*, and sprung a leak, 

 to the great danger of the live* of the men that were 

 which could be BO other than sonic eubatanee ge- 

 nerated in the clouds. The (ton* was like condensed 

 or petrified clay, and was a long time in the cuttody of 

 Captain Andrew Dick, at that time steward ni 

 vamMj i and Captain Dick, who i* yet alive, told me 

 be gave it to the late Earl of Glencairn." From these 

 particulars, we can entertain little doabt of the fact, 

 however much we may be disposed to aotile at the Dr.'t 

 faciiity of theorizing. 



March 26, O. S. \&l6. About an hour and three quar- 

 ters after sun-set, a fire ball was eeen to proceed, a* if 

 from Dalnaajit, pat ting obaioaely over Italy with a hiss- 

 ing noise, and exploding to the south south-west of 

 Leghorn with a terrible report. It* fragment* arc said 

 e fallen into the sea, with th same aort of noise 

 a* when red hot iron i* extinguished in water. Its 

 greatest altitude in the tooth southeast at Bologna, wa* 

 to', and its greatest, at Siena, in the north nona-west, 

 was W. On one side of the coBMry it seemed to bo 



|a>L. 



nearly vertical, at Rimini and 8t 



h.-,m'.mthr,,i).,-r. M ...!.,: - ir :. , 



tic, at BoioBM. who n.hliihtrl a 

 that theme) 



Bologna, 



anon, conjectures that the meteor moat bare 

 at the rate of at least 1 60 miles in a minute. Its appa- 

 rent magnitude at Bologna exceeded that of the roll 

 ajoon in one itiias.il ir, and was above half a* big again 

 in the ether. Dr. Halley ha* condensed the substance 



of Montanari's Report, in N T o. cccxli. of the Philotophi- 



cal Transactions. T 



May 28, 1677. Many stony masses, supposed to have 

 contained particles of copper, are said by Balduinus, in 

 hi.i Appendix to the Miscellanea \atnrar Curiotorum, 

 for l<i", to have fallen near Ermendorf, in Saxony.* Brmtndorf. 

 January 12, l()83. a mass of stone or iron fell near Cas- 

 trovillari, in Calabria. Mrrcaii. March 3, 11)83. A stone Caitrotil- 

 fell in Piedmont Id. 1689. Red dun fell at Venice, Uri. 

 &c. I'ntisi.iiri. Jan. 3, 1697. In Soldani's catalogue, Piedmont- 

 published in the 9lh vol. of the Transaction* of the Aca- V 

 demy of Science* at Siena, stones resembling those al- 

 ready described are said to have fallen at Pentolina, p cn tolina. 

 near Siena. May 1<>, 1698. Scheuzer, in his \attiral 

 y oj Siritzerlaml, informs us that a black stone 

 fell from the atmosphere, with various explosions, near 

 the village of Waltring, in the canton of Berne, and that Wshrtng. 

 it was transmitted, with an account of the circumst.nn- 

 ces, to the public library at Berne. It is doubtful, 

 however, if the.Mone preserved in that repository is the 



same which fell June 7, 1706, a stone, weighing 



~. i Ib. is said to have fallen near Larissa, in Macedonia. LATMW. 

 It was observed to proceed from the north with a loud 

 hiseiBg. and enveloped in a small cloud, which explod- 

 ed with a tremendous noise, discharging a stone, which 

 had the appearance of iron dross and the smell <-; 

 phur. Lucas. May 5 and 6, 171 1. Red rain at Ortio, in Onio. 

 Sweden. Act. Liirr. Snec. A gelatinous matter fell, 

 with a globe of fire, in the isle of Lethy, in India. Bar- '- clh . v - 

 emmfe. -April ('. I 7 I'Mlierefeil intottn Atlantic-Ocean, Allan:*. 

 in 45 Lst. X. and M8* 44' Long, from Paris, a shower 

 of mad, which lasted from ten o'clock in the evening 

 till one o'clock of the afternoon of next day. It was 

 preceded by a luminous meteor. The wind was then 

 east south-east. The captain of a vessel, and all the 

 ere*-, certified the fact to Father Feuillce, who 



" a upecimen of the sand to the Academy of Sa- 

 lt had the appearance of common, but very fine 

 June 3, 17*--', 'tones fell near Scheftlas, in Frei- Sctenhu. 

 JBBgaB. MaiatmWf June 2- >r. Host (Bret- 



tn*> Calltet.) relates, that at two o'clock in the after- 

 Boon, the weather being then calm, there was seen at riokow- 

 Pleskowicz, some mile* from Retchstadt, in Bohemia, a '" 

 small cloud, from which several large and small stone* 

 were projected, under loud explosions, but without any 

 lightning. These stones, which were black on the out- 

 .! internally the appearance of metal, and exhal- 

 ed a strong sulphureous odour. Twenty-five of them 

 were collected in one place, and seven or eight in ano- 

 ther. This instance is likewise, noted by Strpling, dt 

 Plmtia Ispotra. July 2*, 1 77- Stones fell at Lilas- 

 chits, in Bohemia. Strpbng.nSl. Fused metal fell at 

 Lesaay. //o%. August 18, 1738. Stones fell near 

 Carpentra*. CattMm.Oct. 85, 1 740. Stone* fell at Ras- " P 1 "'"'- 

 grad. CM. An. I'M, or 17! 1. \ large itone fell, du- R 

 ring winter, in Greenland. Egede. 17*3. Stone* fell Gretnhnd. 



Uchit, in Bohemia. Slepiing. 1 744, Red rain LIS,~- 

 at San Pietrod'Arena, near Genoa. Rickard. October cbict 

 12, 17 JO. M. de Lalinde, the celebrated astronomer, G*. 

 inform* us that a loud noise was heard in Lower Nor- 

 mandy, and thst a very huge mas* of (tone fell at Ni- Ntort. 

 art, in the vicinity of Coutances. 



May 86, 17.01, at six o'clock in the evening, a re- 

 markable fire-ball was observed near Hrasehina, in the 

 district of Agram, in Upper Sclavonia. According to Agram. 



:t/. an intelligent naturalist, attached to the Im- 

 perial Cabinet of Vienna, this meteor burst asunder into 

 two part*, exhibiting the appearance of twisted chain* 



