AMERICAN. 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES,] 
Art. I.—An account of the Meteor which burst over Weston in 
Connecticut, in December, 1807, and of the falling of stones 
on that occasion; by Professors SiunimaN and KinesLey.® 
On the 14th of December, 1807, about ers past 6 o’clock, a.m., 
a Meteor was seen moving throu ugh e atmosphere, with very 
great velocity, and was heard to explode over ibe townof Weston, 
in Connecticut, about 25 miles west of New Haven. Nathan 
Wheeler, Esq., of Weston, one of the justices of the court 
common pleas for the county of Fairfield, a gentleman of 
respectability, and of undoubted veracity, who seems to 
been entirely uninfluenced by fear or imagination, was pass ee 
at the time through an inclosure adjoining his house, and had 
an opportunity of witnessing the whole phenomenon. From him 
the account of the appearance, rs agree and explosion of the 
meteor, is principally derived. The morning was somewhat 
cloudy, The clouds were di spn in unequal masses, artelly 
"Am. Jour. Scr.—Szeconp Series, You, XLVII, No. 130,—JaN., 1808. 
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