4 Silliman and Kingsley on the Weston Meteor of 1807. 
striking the ground in its fall. Excepting one, the stones were 
more or less broken. The most = circumstances of the 
particular cases were as follews 
. The most northerly fall was within the limits of Hunting- 
ton, on the border of Weston, about 40 or 50 rods east of the 
great road from Bridgeport to 5 teen, in a cross road, and 
contiguous to the house of Mr. Edwin Burr. Mr, Burr was 
standing in the road, in front of bis house, when the stone fell. 
The noise produced by its collision with a rock of granite was 
very loud. Mr. Burr was within 50 feet, and immediately 
searched for the body, but it being still dark, he did not find 
it till half an hour atter. By the fall, some of it was reduced 
to powder, and the rest of it was proken into very small frag- 
ments, which were thrown around to the distance of 20 or 30 
feet. The rock was stained at the place of contact with a deep 
lead color. The largest fragment which remained did not 
exceed the size of a goose egg, and this Mr. Burr found to be 
still warm to his hand. There was reason to conclude from all 
the circumstances, that this stone must have weighed about 
twenty or twenty-five pounds. 
Mr. Burr had a strong impression that another stone fell in 
an adjoining field, and it was confidently believed that a large 
mass had fallen into a neighboring swamp, but neither of these 
had been found. It is probable that the stone, whose fall has 
now been described, together with any other masses, which may 
have fallen at the same time, was thrown from the meteor at the 
first ig eee 
featileately iter the sptaione The co formed various unsatis- 
weatory eure concerning the. cause, nor did even a fresh 
They had indeed formed a vague conjecture that the hole 
might have been made by lightning, but would probably have 
a no further attention to the circumstance, had they not 
eard, in the course of the day, that stones had fallen that mor- 
ning in other parts of the town. This induced them, towards 
evening, to search the hole in the yard, where they found a 
stone buried in the loose earth which had fallen in uponit. It 
was two feet from the surface, the hole was about twelve inches 
jn diameter, and as the earth was soft and nearly _ from 
stones, the mass had sustained little i injury, only a few 
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