144 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The sounds were distinct, and continued more than half a minute ; 
they were imputed by some to thunder—but there were no clouds, the 
evening was calm and mild like the Indian summer, and only a mist 
was seen in the eastern horizon; nor were the impression of others 
better founded that the explosions were due to the blasting of rocks on 
a railroad; but sheriff Alexander having once before witnessed the ex- 
plosion of a meteor, justly traced the detonation to that cause. 
The negroes, who are very acute observers of sounds in the open 
air, denied the thunder, and an old fisherman said that the reports were 
like those of three pieces of heavy artillery followed by the base drum. 
Horses both in harness and under the saddle started with alarm. 
Enquiry began to be made for fallen stones, and on Monday a serv- 
ant of the mint brought in a report from the county of Cabaras, twenty- 
five miles distant, that there were notices stuck up on the trees, inviting 
people to come and see “a wonderful rock that had fallen from the 
skies on the plantation of Mr. Hiram x 
Mr. Gibbon of the mint, with Dr. Andrews, travelled twenty-one 
smoke, the black color being relieved where the crust had been 
broken, and a little of the clayey soil in which it was buried in its de- 
scent still adhered to it. It had the curved indentations usual in mete- 
orites, as if it had been soft and had yielded to impressions, and, lus- 
trous metallic points appeared through the ground color, which had 
generally a bluish slaty appearance, but no such rock was known in 
the neighborhood. Mr. Post took the travelers by torch-light to see 
pine tree east of them, they heard the stone strike “ with a dull, heavy 
jar of the ground,” while the dog, in terror, crouched at his master’s 
eet. 
had been “ driven about by the percussion, aided in discovering the 
spot, about three hundred yards from the place where Mr. Post had 
* With laudable liberality and caution joined, the worthy proprietor of the boon 
which had fallen on his land—had annexed a written ner be Gentlemen, sirs— 
please not to break this rock, which fell from the skies and weighs 19} — 
Hiram Post.” 
alii mi cae 
