88 J. L. Smith on the Guernsey (Ohio) County Meteorites. 
southeast, at about the same elevation. In the district where the 
meteorites fell, the explosions were heard immediately over- 
head. 
The first reports were so heavy as to produce a tremulous mo- 
tion, like heavy thunder, causing the glass in windows to rattle. 
The sound was so singular, that it caused some excitement and 
ost many supposing it an earthquake. At Barnesville, twen- 
miles east of Cambridge, the cry of fire was made, as the 
is 88 sound was thought to be the roaring of fire 
e day was cool and the sky covered at the time with light 
loci os thunder or lightning had been noticed that da avi 
nor could any thing unusual be seen in the appearance of t 
clouds. Immediately on hearing the report, this observer looked 
in the direction it came, and noticed the eka closely but could 
not see any thing unusual. 
he next morning it was ae 3 in Cambridge that aerolites 
had fallen on a farm in the vicinity of New Concord, (eight miles 
zing sound to the earth—one striking about 300 yards to the 
southwest of them and the other about 100 yards north. 
hey immediately went to the spot where the first fell, and 
found it buried two feet in the ground. They dug it out and 
found it quite warm and of a sulphurous rine The other 
struck a fence corner and breaking the ends of some of the rails 
penetrated i | 
through a pose of dry leaves; the first weighed 52 ibs., the 
other was broken up but must have weighed about 40 ibs. 
Another of 41 md weight, not seen to fall, was discovered at the 
bottom of a hole two feet deep, where it had £ fallen on stiff turf, 
and was seen at the bottom of the hole, having carried the sod — 
before it. It must have come from the — at an angle 
60° with the horizon. Many were discovered to have fallen 
southeast of Cambridge but of nation a: S eeieons than those — 
already referred to. At the time of oceurrence nearly all. 
were at dinner, or in and about their — The stones ob- | 
tained were mostly found near houses, where they were seen to 
fall, as the sound of their striking es sat ebiseried attentions 
Another well informed observer, Dr. McConnel of New Con- 
cord, (a small town eight miles east of Cambridge), furnishes the a 
following particulars. On Tuesday, the Ist of May, at twenty- 
le of that vicinity — 
eight minutes past twelve o'clock, the people of 
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