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southwest. It was attended by a sudden flash of light, and left be 
if it struck on dry ground the meteor ought to have been discover 
we have received no account of such a discovery there is reasol 
apprehend that the meteor may have descended into water, and probally 
into Delaware Bay. Analogy would lead us to conclude that this 
longed to the class of iron meteors of which we have numerous spét 
mens in our cabinets. i 
at Bethel College about 10 o’clock, a. m., and was at first tho 
the firing of cannon in honor of a political election. ee 
The first report was double, like the almost simultaneous ¢ 
two great rockets, The reverberations were protracted, deep, 
ion was 
deeper than the former, and the reverberations more | el 
bearing of the sound was N, | ; ee 
I find that the report was heard forty miles north of us, where 
supposed to bear South East; it was heard twelve miles south 
bearing same as here; but farther south and west it was not 
As yet, I have heard of no fragments of the meteor beg * 
feel satisfied myself, however, of the meteoric origin of ‘the & 
