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J. E. Willet on the Georgia Meteoric Stone. 337 
“Tt fell about 114 a. M. on the 6th of October last, (1869), 
in Stewart county, Ga., on the premises of Elbridge Barlow, Esq., 
about 12 miles south of west from Lumpkin. Capt. Barlow 
picked it up a few moments after it fell. His account of it is 
this. While standing in the open yard, the sky being bright 
and clear, he heard first a succession of about three explosions, 
resembling sudden bursts of thunder, or discharges of artillery, 
followed by a deep roaring for several seconds, and then by a 
rushing or whizzing sound of something rushing with great speed 
through the air near by. The sound ceased suddenly. The 
noise, from first to last, was some half a minute. Two negroes 
very much like a lump of iron ore. It is an irregular, seven- 
sided figure, its longest side being about 22 inches long. If put 
into a spherical form, it would make a ball about 1 inches in 
