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If* you can furnish me with a brief account of its analysis I shall be 

 much obliged. 



Permit me to subscribe myself, 



Very truly yours, 

 Reginald F. Sal~>"dees. 

 His account of the meteorite was as follows. 



Extract from letter No. 927 from It. F. Saunders, Usq., Deputy 

 Commissioner, Kangra, to It. H. Davies, JEsq., Secretary to Punjab 

 Government, dated Dhurmsala, 28th July, 1860. 



In the afternoon between the hours of 2 and 2-30 p. M., the 

 Station of Dhurmsala was startled by a terrific bursting noise, wbich 

 was supposed at first to proceed from a succession of loud blastings or 

 from the explosion of a mine in the upper part of the Station, others, 

 imagining it to be an earthquake or very large landslip, rushed from 

 their houses in the firm belief that they must fall upon them. 



It soon became apparent that this was not the case. The first 

 report, which was far louder in its discharge than any volley of artil- 

 lery, was quickly followed bj another and another to the number of 14 

 or 16 ; most of the latter reports grew gradually less and less loud. 

 These were probably but the reverberations of the former, not among 

 the hills but amongst the clouds, just as is the case with thunder. 

 It was difficult to say which were the reports, and which the echoes. 

 There could certainly not have been fewer than 4 or 5 actual reports. 

 During the time that the sound lasted, the ground trembled and shook 

 convulsively. 



From the different accounts of three eye-witnesses, there appears 

 to have been observed a flame of fire, described as about two feet in 

 depth, and 9 feet in length, darting in an oblique direction above the 

 station, after the first explosion had taken place. The Meteoric 

 flash was said to be from North 1ST. West to South S. East. Frag- 

 ments of the aerolite fell in the same direction at the following 

 places. 



In the Ravine below the Dhurmsala Kotwallee at the village 

 Sadeir. 



On the Barrack Hill close to the Convalescent Depot. 



At River G-uj 4 miles from the Kotwallee. 



