Kemarkable 

 hiflory. 



188 STONES FALLEN ON THE EARTH. 



additional fpecimens. Monfieur St. Araand very obligingly 

 divided with me afpecimen he l»ad broiien from afloneofabout 

 15 inches diameter, preferved in the Muleum of Bourdeaux, 

 which ftone fell near Roqueford, in the Landes, on the 20th 

 Auguft, J789, during the explofion of a meteor; it broka 

 through the roof of a cottage, and killed a herdfman and fome 

 cattle, M. St. Amand alfo gave me part of a ftone he had 

 preferved in his collection ever fince the year 1790, when a 

 ihower of (tones, weighing from | an ounce to 13 and 25 

 pounds each, fell in the pariflies of Grange and Creon, and 

 alfo in the parifliof Juliac, in Armagnac ; which fa6l was, at 

 the time, verified by Duby, Mayor of Armile, and publitbed 

 by Bertholon, in the Joujrtal des Sciences utiles de M(mlpcllie)\ 

 in the year 1790. 



The third fpecimen, I owe tothe Marquis de Dree ; it is a 

 fragment, broken from a flone of 22 pounds weight, which 

 fell near the village of Salles, not far from Villefranche in 

 Burgundy, on the 12Lh of March, 1798 j this was alfo ac- 

 companied by a meteor. 

 Thefe three 1 content myfelf with the mere recital of the fads, in con- 



•^^ chTrTdle^^Th ^''^^^'0" <^^ ^^^^ obfervations prefented to the Society, as thefe 

 the others. three additional fpecimens have precifely tlie fame characters, 



texture, and appearance, as the others in my colleftion; and 

 are (carcely, by the eye, to be dilHnguiftied from them. 



I Qiould not, perhaps, have troubled the Society with this 

 account, as my friend the Marquis de Dree, whofe knowledge 

 in mineralogy peculiarly qualifies him to inveftigate thefe fub- 

 jeds, has given me hopes of feeing his obfervations on them 

 publifiied ; but a new evidence has lately fallen into my hands, 

 and is the only one I have met with that afcertains tlie origin 

 of native iron, which from analyfis, had been fufpecled to have 

 Metallic ftone a coramon origin with the fiones fallen on the earth. Con- 

 that rell in India y^rf^ng with Colonel Kirkpatrick, whofe refearches have 

 turiesago. embraced both the literature and politics of India, and whofe 



talents had placed him in very important fituations in various 

 parts of India, I inquired whether he had ever heard of any 

 inllances fimilar to the explofion of the meteor at Benares in 

 1798. He told me, he could not recoiled having heard or' 

 read of any other inftance, excepting one in the Memoirs 

 written by the Emperor Jehangire, and of that he did not 

 yecoUed the particulars. A few days after, having found the 



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