884 Fall of a Meteoric Stone in Khaundes. [No. 155. 



not much more so than usual. From midday until the time the stone 

 fell, (3 p. m.) it was very cloudy towards the northward ; after its fall, 

 the thunder ceased, and the clouds cleared away. No stone of a similar 

 description had ever fallen near our village before. The pieces of 

 the stone were immediately after carried off by the country people. 

 Our village is situated on the banks of the small river the Poorna ; 

 there are no hills in its vicinity, the nearest being three coss (or 6 

 miles) off. The above is a true statement, dated at Rawere, talooka 

 Jaoda, on the 17 th December, 1844. 



(Signed.) Goba ud Nagojee Chowdrie. 



„ HUNMUNTA UD DAMA NAIK. 



True translation of the deposition given before me on the above date, 

 C. J. Inverarity, Actg. 1st Assist. Col. 



Chemical Examination. 



The specimens were referred to me for examination, of which this 

 is my report. 



The specimens are mainly composed of an earthy greyish white, 

 pulverulent mass, slightly tinged with a bluish grey in some parts. It 

 is excessively friable, and both crumbles and soils the fingers even 

 when most delicately handled. In the earthy mass are thickly im- 

 bedded light, greenish, glassy particles of olivine, single and in nests, 

 resembling green mica or felspar ; the appearance in some parts being 

 almost that of an earthy variety of Lepidolite. On the side of one 

 piece of Captain Abbott's specimens, is a bright black crust, thickly but 

 minutely mammillated. When this is touched with the file it leaves 

 a rusty mark, but gives no metallic trace. This crust is exceedingly 

 thin, and splinters off, and in one place a mass of the olivine in it is 

 melted to a green bead. It is too fragile, and our specimens too small, 

 to attempt obtaining sparks from it. Two of Mr. Bell's fragments also 

 have small portions of crusts yet adhering to them. 



Internally and by the magnifier, a few bright white metallic points 

 are discoverable, and in one or two places small nests of it ; there are also 

 a few of a brown kind. We have one fragment of an Aerolite which 

 fell in 1808, at Moradabad, which is pulverulent, but not so much so 

 as the present specimen by a great deal. The present specimen is in 

 this respect almost unique, as the only one I now recollect to have 



