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fragments having been detached by the shock. The weight of 
this stone was about thirty-five pounds. From the descriptions 
which we have heard, it must have been a noble specimen, and 
men of science will not cease to deplore that so rare a treas- 
ure should have been immediately broken in pieces. All that 
remained unbroken of this mass, was a piece of twelve pounds 
weight, since purchased by Isaac Bronson, Esq., of Greenfield, 
with the liberal view of presenting it to some public insti- 
tution. 
Six days after, another mass was discovered, half a mile north- 
west from Mr. Prince’s 
on a globular detached mass of gneiss rock, which it split in 
two, and by which it was itself shivered to pieces. 
The same men informed us, that they suspected another 
stone had fallen in the vicinity, as the report had been dis- 
tinctly heard, and could be referred to a particular region some- 
what to the east. Returning to the place after an excursion 
of a few hours to another part of the town, we were gratified 
to find the conjecture verified, by the actual discovery of a mass 
of thirteen pounds weight, which had fallen half a mile to the 
northeast of Mr. Prince’s. Having fallen in a ploughed field, 
without coming into contact with a rock, it was broken only 
into two principal pieces, one of which, possessing all the char- 
acters of the stone in a remarkable degree, we purchased ; for 
it had now become an article of sale. 
Two miles southeast from Mr. Prince’s, at the foot of Ta- 
showa Hill, a fifth mass fell. Its fall was distinctly heard by 
Mr. Ephraim Porter and his family, who live within forty rods 
of the place, and in full view. They saw a smoke rise from the 
spot, as they did also from the hill, where they are positive 
that another stone struck, as they heard it distinctly. At the 
time of the fall, having never heard of any such thing, they 
supposed that lightning had struck the ground, but after three 
or four days, hearing of the stones which had been found in 
their vicinity, they were induced to search, and the result was 
the discovery of a mass of stone in the road, at the place where 
they supposed the lightning had struck. It penetrated the 
ground to the depth of two feet in the deepest place; the hole 
was about twenty inches in diameter, and its margin was col 
ored blue from the powder of the stone, struck off in its fall. 
It was broken into fragments of moderate size, and from the 
best calculations might have weighed 20 or 25 pounds. _ 
