104 Fall of Meteoric Stones in Ohio, May 1, 1860. 
it descended two feet ten inches into hard clay. This stone was 
found resting under a root which was not cut off. This would 
seemingly imply that it entered the earth obliquely. It is said 
that other stones which fell in soft ground entered the earth at 
a similar angle, They must have been flying in a northwest di- 
rection. This fact, added to the other facts, that the detonations 
heard at New Concord came lower and lower from the zenith 
defined, generally they show that they have been rounded by 
fusion. The accompanying figure shows the appearance of the 
reer stone now in the cabinet of Marietta College. Viewed 
