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pound shot, of quicksilvery appearance, then fell for a few seconds 
towards the north and vanished. No report was heard by Mr. Men- 
zies and Mr. Thompson, (a sufficient proof of the great distance,) for 
on reaching the Bokkeveld, almost one hundred miles, they ascer- 
- tained that the meteor had exploded and stones fallen there about the 
time they witnessed the phenomenon. 
The Rev. Mr. Zahn, of Tubogh, sent in to Mr. Watermeyer a stone 
broken by the fall into two pieces, the same stone that was analyzed 
by Mr. Faraday ; it weighed twenty seven ounces—another weighed 
four pounds two ounces avoirdupois. 
Several stones fell on the place of Rudolph Van Heerden, one of 
which was broken to pieces by falling on the hard road; another 
sunk a few inches into the ground ona ploughed field, and a third 
penetrated several feet ina moist place near the water. The first 
stone named above, fell at an hour’s distance (five to six miles) from 
the others; and in the same direction in which the agitation was per- 
ceptible, i. e. from northwest to southeast, more stones were found. 
Mr. Zahn states that he had one piece too large to be carried on horse- 
back. 
Dr. Truter, civil commissioner of Worcester, at the time of the 
fall observed the windows of his office to shake as if by an earth- 
quake, and the mercury in his barometer was found to be depressed 
to the lowest point of its range throughout the year. Dr. Truter 
sent in several specimens of the meteorite seen to fall by the Hotten- 
tot Kieviet. - 
Attention was first excited by a violent explosion, followed by.@ 
rumbling noise, like that from heavy wagons passing over stony 
ground; when, on looking up, they saw a blue stream of smoke, 
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if from fired gunpowder, passing over from S. W. to N. E. ; at 
same instant the son of Van Heerden saw something fall, wh 
picked up; and another stone, which plunged into a marsh about @ 
mile off, was afterwards discovered. 
A servant of Priter du Tort, saw a stone fall in the brush-wood, @ 
mile below the garden; he ran to the place and brought it to his mas- 
ter. All assert that the sky was clear and calm, and that the stone? 
were so hot that they could not be taken up. 
All the instances cited above, are those of stones that were seen to 
The people being excited, farther search was made, and many other 
pieces were discovered within a zone of one mile broad and sixteen 
miles long, only a small portion of which is cultivated, and the Te 
mainder is covered with brush-wood as on waste land, and therefore 
it is highly probable that many other pieces have escaped observations 
