134 C. U. Shepard-—Meteoric Stone of Searsmont, Me. 
ion, like the report of a heavy gun, followed by a rushing | 
ound resembling the escape of steam from a halen The 
gravel; and the shattering of the stone was produced by its : 
finally meeting three large pebbles, (each about four pounds in| 
weight) in the course of its descent. “Mrs. Buck, who saw it 
fall, or rather saw the scattering of the soil on its entering 
the ground, was reading at the time in the house, distant 
about thirty rods from the spot. The time was 15 minutes past | 
eight. She first noticed a report about as loud as that of a — 
heavy gun, or of a rock-blast, such as they hear from a lime 
quarry situated about a quarter of a mile distant. This was | 
followed by a rumbling noise, as of a number of carriages — 
rp. Beton a bridge. She rose and looked out from a back — 
en re-crossed the room to the front door, where, after the §— 
Through the kind assistance of Mr. Sheldon, I am in posses 4 
sion of the largest remaining mass of this meteorite. Its weight 
is two pounds. Fully one-half of its surface is coated with - 
the original crust. Its shape would seem to denote an ov: 
subconical figure in the original mass, with a flattish base, 50 
as on the whole to have approached the shape of the famous 
Duralla (India) stone, (Feb. 18, 1815), now preserved in the 
British Museum.* The coated part of my specimen, which 
__ * Of which I possess an excellent model, presented me while that stone was 
still in the collection of the East India House. 
