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down through the space of a few inches. A streak of bright 
light, 100 yards in length, followed the blaze. Before there was a ’ 
time to utter a word, the meteor had passed behind a neighboring “; 
hill, when a loud explosion ensued. Ata place about one mile 
distant, t, inthe direction of the meteor’s passage; two men were 
at “work in a field. They heard the explosion, and saw the stone 
strike the-earth, at a distan¢ée of two hundred yards from where 
h they were standing, It hit the trunk of a tree, eighteen inches 
above the ground; and when first discovered, seemed enveloped 
in‘ssmoke. (The foregoing statement was supplied by Mr. T. 
MacDonald. 
» The following letter, dated Sept 12, 1846, describing the 
enomenon, is from Mr. B. B. Harrison, a merchant residing in 
Lie Piney, distant about ten miles from: Pine Bluff, where the 
fell. - “I recollect the state of the weather on the afternoon | 
of the occurrence. It was perfectly clear and calm oo going | 
niles east of this pace), the report proceed from the 
“6 After the ere of some weeks sented with a frag- 
ment of the stone, which le the place of bs fall. It 
was at the’ foot of a ill of 3 gradual slope, about half a mile 
from the Gasconade river, two miles from Pine Bluff post-office, 
ten miles from: Little “Pines post-office, and the same distance 
from Waynesville. i. where the stone had struck an : 
= eighteen inches in 
ugh not broken. T saw 
