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proach of a high wind,) in a curved line and with a regular mo- 
tion towards the earth. The light was intense and the tail or 
train was of a conical form, like the blaze of a lighted candle. 
It, disappeared from my view, a moment before 1 heard a report, 
like that of a small cannon. A few days after, about one-third 
of a mile distant from the place where I witnessed the appear- 
ance described, I found, as I suppose, a fragment of this meteor.” 
Several inquiries were, at my request, proposed to Capt. C., to 
which he replied in the following note, addressed to Prof. K. : 
“There has never been a glass-house in this section of the state: 
The nearest ifon works are sixteen miles distant. Common 
brown earthen ware was manufactured formerly at a place one- 
third of a mile distant from the spot ina straight line. I have 
sandy loam. There wasno stone wall, or accumulation of stones 
within two miles. The specimén, when picked up, appeared to 
be anewly detached mass. The grass upon which it lay was 
short and. close to the ground, and was entirely unchanged in ap- 
pearance.” / ; an 
Capt. Crosby presented the mass (whose weight appears not to» 
have exceeded three ounces) to Virgil D. Parris, Esq., formerly 
a member of Conigress, and now United States.Marshal at Port- 
land. Mr. Parris gave Prof. Keely the fragment which was pre- 
sented to me for examination, and subsequently has presented to 
him the remainder of the: mass. Such is the history of this 
stone. ‘ 
Its appearance is that of an imperfectly stratified or laminated 
pumice stone, with double the ordinary compactness of this sub- 
stance,—the layers being one-sixth of an inch in thickness. It 
has very little tendency however to separate at these joints; and 
their existence even is chiefly denoted by a difference of color: 
The body of the stone is a light ash-grey, while at and near the 
joints it is iron-black. Indeed the powder ofthe black matter is 
attracted by the magnet. ‘The outside. of the stone has evidently? 
undergone fusion, subsequently to the interior; and is coated by 
a thin red-brown crust. It is too vesicular in its texture to allow 
of a satisfactory determination of its specific gravity. = 
The stone is composed of the following ingredients: 
Silicic acid, ‘ ‘ : : ; 70:00 ~ 
otoxyd iron : : ine . 
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Magnesia, a Gar - . 259 
Lime, , . . . £. nl . 
