﻿36 H. B. Medlicott — Record of the Khairpur Meteorite. [No. 2, 



witness of it, said it seemed to him to come from the north, as he said the 

 artillery were practising in Multan. The time that elapsed between the 

 bursting of the meteor, when first noticed, and the report was about four 

 minutes." 



Mr. Yeates describes the meteor in the meridian as attaining an altitude 

 of 50° from his point of view, which seems to be about 30-40 miles from 

 the projected path of the meteor, and about 50 miles from Khairpur in the 

 direction of the major axis of the area covered by the fall. 



The following observations are extracted from a letter of Major Min- 

 chin's. 



" I was in camp at a place about 6 miles from Ooch and 50 miles from 

 Bhawalpur at the time, and was roused from sleep by a brilliant light 

 followed by a loud thunderclap. The next day we heard from Bhawalpur 

 that the explosion of the meteorite was so violent as to shake the house 

 and slam all the doors ; and in the course of a few days the Tuhsildar of 

 Khairpur sent me in 3 meteoric stones, 2 of which were forwarded to you 

 and one to the museum at Lahore, which he reported had fallen at places 

 about a mile apart and about a mile beyond Khairpur, which is 36 miles 

 east of Bhawalpur. 



" One of the meteorites fell close to a man who had gone out into the 

 jungle for the purpose of nature, and frightened him so much, that he 

 hardly knew what occurred and was under the impression that the stone 

 pursued him for two hours ; but he shewed the spot where it fell which was 

 the first piece found. I have had the spot marked approximately in the 

 map you sent, and which is herewith returned, some portions fell in the 

 Mylsi district on the right bank of the Sutlej . 



" At Bhawulgur in this State, 80 miles from Khairpur, the meteor was 

 seen but no explosion was heard ; and I have been informed that it was seen 

 at Bunnoo and Kohat on the frontier and also from the Terar hills above 

 Peshawur. 



" A correspondent in the Pioneer mentioned having seen it at Jodhpur, 

 and Mr. W. Beckett saw it near Moradabad on his way from Njmee Tal. 

 Stating it roughly, the meteorite would appear to have been visible within 

 a radius of 300 miles of Khairpur." 



The following observations are taken from the I^ioneer newspaper, of 

 the 30th September. 



" Multan, 2Mli Sep. 



" Sir, — The appearance of an extraordinary meteor, of which I daresay 

 you will have notice from other quarters, may justify my venturing to 

 describe it as seen from the neighbourhood of Mul^n, and under very 

 favourable circumstances. 



