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were almost panic stricken by a strange and terrible report in 
the heavens, which shook the houses for many miles distant. 
The first report was immediately overhead, and after an inter- 
val of a few seconds, was followed by similar reports, with such 
increasing rapidity, that after the number of twenty-two were 
counted, “they were no longer distinct, but became continuous 
and died away like the roaring of distant thunder; the course 
of the reports being from the meridian _ the southeast. In 
one instance, three men wo orking in a field,—their self pos- 
Session being measurably restored from the shock of the more 
terrible report from above,—had their attention attracted by a 
buzzing noise overhead nae soon observed a large body descend- 
ing, stri uke the earth at a distance of about one hundred yards. 
from which they extracted an irregular quadrangular stone 
weighing fifty-one pounds, This stone ha buried itself two 
= McKin 
E ..-Uhe keinesd is leith those who heard the noises but did not see 
7 "he Liege the following are a few statements of the many I col- 
4 from those who witnessed the ~ ¥ the stones. I ex- 
4 a from their depositions made at the 
_, “Theard the reports and roaring as ltt ‘described. Anda 
few a a gt aierwards I saw a large body or substance deoosele 
@ noise as of a body falling 
— ground. And Miss A site also says that she was stant 
_ Mrs. Fillis, heard the same and saw some cuban eset 
_ Strike the earth some one hundred yards distant and 
’ Fill illis repaired to the spot and there found a stone 
_ Amt Jovz. Scr—Secoxp Sezes, Vou. XXXI, ae 1.—Jax., 1801. 
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