Miscellanies, 379 



tant, when a stone fell yvhich weighed eleven pounds and a half. 

 This took place near him, his wife and three other women. A num- 

 ber of respectable men were present when it was found and taken 

 up ; it was twelve inches under ground. I have seen one that fell 

 at Mr. David Garrett's, and part of one that fell at Mr. John 

 Bones', I have also heard of one more that has been found. These 

 stones are perfectly similar, glazed with a thin black crust and bear 

 the marks of having been through a body of fire and black smoke. 

 Many gentlemen, who have been excited within a few days to 

 come to my house to see them, say they never saw such before. 

 Drake's Creek, Sumner Co., May 16, 1827 — 18 miles from Nashville. 



The Editor of the paper says the noise was heard 10 or 12 miles 

 or more. 



I have nothing to add to the descriptions of this stone already pub* 

 lished, except that the innumerable metallic points which are visible 

 through the light grey (almost white) surface of the mass are near- 

 ly as brilliant as silver, although they have obviously been rounded 

 by heat. They are attended by an immense number of brilliant 

 black vitreous globules, which have every appearance of perfect 

 fusion and the entire mass has that harsh acrid feel which belongs 

 to lavas and trachytic rocks. 



The black crust has evidently been in a state of, at least, pasty 

 fusion ; its roughnesses are rounded and on drawing a file over any 

 of its prominent points bright metallic iron is immediately uncovered. 



There is no account of a fire ball attending these meteorites, but 

 as it was full day light and probably sun shine, we cannot conclude 

 that there was no fire ball. It is most probable, that there was one. 

 — Editor. 



17. Fountains of fresh and salt water. 



Marietta, Ohio, March 11, 1830. 



TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAKT. 



Sir — ^In the last number of the Journal of Science, I was pleased 

 to observe the remarks of Mr. G. W. Long, upon the spontaneous 

 flow of springs or water from the bowels of the earth. He says, 

 " springs that flow spontaneously, are generally found on the sides of 

 hills, or in the neighborhood of them ; and often in such situations as 

 not to be easily accounted for, and to be, at the same time, objects 

 of great curiosity. The flow of water from the bowels of the earth 

 by boring, excites still more wonder, as the cause appears more 



