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stood at the moment of the fall, ie was in the woods, but there were 
no marks on the trees—althou ugh the impression was that numerous 
small bodies had fallen, ‘ a a noise like hot rocks thrown into 
water.” 
war, or some other dire calamity, and a militia colonel, in a spirit quite 
professional, said that “there must be war in heaven, for they were 
throwing r 
At the request of Dr. Andrews, the stone was diverted from another 
destination, in favor of Prof. Charles U. Shepard, of the Medical Col- 
lege of South Carolina at Charleston—from whom we learn that at a 
recent date the specimen had not yet reached h 
In due time we shall — the result of his Anal examination ; 
but from the circumstan have no hesitation in admitting this case 
a8 genuine: the facts are oD werhady epi to hundreds on record, and 
in many particulars are in accordance with the er post pices ~ 
this nature which happened in Weston, Genicom in Dee 
807, and with which the senior editor of this fouls ‘with his me 
colleague, Prof. Kingsley, was at the time familiar. There is no room 
to discuss theories, but we feel fully assured — aerolites are not formed 
ia our atmosphere, are not projected from terrestrial or lunar volca- 
noes, but have a foreign origin, giving us the cae reports of the phys- 
ical constitution of other worlds which have ever reached our earth. 
By an additional communication from J. H. Gibb bon, Esq., dated No- 
vember 29, 1 9, it is rendered probable, that “luminous materials 
common centre, where a solid mass of heated metal (materials) ex- 
ploded and was violently projected in different directions to the earth.” 
It is stated also that there was a distinct appearance of a single fiery 
elongated body, like iron advanced to a white heat, sparkling in its 
e from west to east, rising like a rocket but not vertically, and 
posing through the air with a long white streak or tail foll ving a 
dense t body in the form of a ball of fire 
Still it is to be observed that neither nd fire ball nor ete light was 
bills at ne this is no way extraordinary, as it was day time, with a 
clear sky, and those only wig Bee the fire ball who were looking i in 
Proper direction at the tim when it was in its most ardent 
ll At the explosion, the elaies was about 45° high. 
te daheinietetinenteese. 
* “The true flaming sword of antiquity.” 
+ This was the very comparison used at Weston, in December, —— » by the peo- 
ple there, in describing a portion of the reports on that 
Szconp Srriss, Vol. IX, No. 25.—Jan., 1850. 
