336 J. E. Wiillet on the Georgia Meteorite Stone. 
scarcely any cloud being visible, quite calm; about 10 A. M. 
the atmosphere grew somewhat hazy, no clouds; at about 15 
idea of the time consumed in all this demonstration ; some 
rsons say several minutes—but I think 10 or 15 seconds 
would about cover the time. 
‘As the larger body was going out of our hearing, (some 
moments after the explosions) a smaller one passed to the south- 
west, with just such a noise as is always produced by a flying 
fragment of a shell after its explosion, or of any angular body 
cast violently through the air. This piece descended to the 
earth, distinctly traced in its passage by many persons, and 
is, on an air-line, about 24 miles from a perpendicular beneath 
where the explosions occurred. This is the only one known to 
have fallen in this section. 
“The explosions, together with the rushing sound afterward, 
were heard over a region about 30 miles N.E. and 8. W. and 50 
or 60 miles N.W. and S.E. No shock was felt—at least no 
the reports. This corroborates the testimony of some of my 
; say, that immedi r the explosions 
something like a thin cloud cast its shadow over the field they 
were in.” 
Hon. John T. Clarke, of Cuthbert, Ga., who has interested 
himself in collecting the history of the meteorite, and through 
= influence it has come into the possession of Mercer 
niversity, writes me the following particulars of its fall. 
