J. L. Smith— Emmet County Meteorite. 459 
Art. LXI.—Study of the Emmet County Meteorite, that fell near 
Hatherville, Emmet County, lowa, May 10, 1879; by J. Law- 
RENCE SMITH, Louisville, Ky. 
Tue fall of this meteorite is in all its attendant circumstances 
one of the most remarkable on record, I therefore visited the 
 Tcdlity —The place of fall is near Hstherville, Binet 
County, Iowa, just on the boundary of the State of Minnesota, 
lat. 48° 80’, lon. 94° 50’, within that region of the United 
States which has become remarkable for falls of meteorites, 
and of which I gave an outline map in my article on “ the 
three meteorites that fell at Rochastat in Indiana, Cynthiana 
in Kentucky, and Warrington in Missouri, within the space of 
one month.”* 
The State of Iowa has become particularly conspicuous in 
recent years as the landing place of these celestial messengers ; 
and I now have under examination still another remarkable 
one with some peculiar ee een characters, but about which I 
have not yet obtained the historic details. 
e phenomena accompanying the fali were of “4 usual 
character, but on a grander scale. It occurred a 
o'clock in the afternoon, under a clear sky, with die sun 
shining brightly. In some places the meteorite was plainly 
visible in its passage through the air, and looked like a ball 
of fire with a long train of vapor or cloud of fire behind it; 
and one observer saw it 100 miles from where it fell. Its course 
was from northwest to southeast. The sounds produced in its 
course are referred to as being “terrible” and pti renee wal 
as scaring cattle and terrifying the people over an area many 
miles in diameter. At first they were louder than that of 
ravine where the iargesk of the masses was found. T'wo 
individuals were within two or three hundred yards of the 
Spots where the two larger masses fell. 
* This Journal, vol. xiv, 1877. 
