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ceased. It continued two or three minutes, and seemed to 

 come from the south-west, at an elevation above the horizon 

 of thirty to forty degrees, terminating in the south-east at 

 about the same elevation. In the district where the meteorites 

 fell the explosions were heard immediately overhead. 



The first reports were so heavy as to produce a tremulous 

 motion, like heavy thunder, causing the glass in windows to 

 rattle. The sound was so singular that it caused some excite- 

 ment and alarm, many supposing it an earthquake. At Barnes- 

 ville, twenty miles east of Cambridge, the cry of fire was made, 

 as the rumbling sound was thought to be the roaring of fire. 



The day was cool and the sky covered at the time with 

 light clouds. No thunder or lightning had been noticed that 

 day, nor could any thing unusual be seen in the appearance of 

 the clouds. Immediately on hearing the report this observer 

 looked in the direction it came, and noticed the clouds closely, 

 but could not see any thing unusual. 



The next morning it was reported in Cambridge that aero- 

 lites had fallen on a farm in the vicinity of New Concord (eight 

 miles west, a little south of Cambridge). Inquiries were im- 

 mediately instituted, and Messrs. Noble and Hines state that 

 they were near the house of a Mr. Amspoker at the time of the 

 first explosion, which seemed directly over their heads. They 

 looked up and saw two objects apparently come through the 

 clouds, producing a twirling in the vapor of the cloud at the 

 point where they came through, then descending with great 

 velocity and a whizzing sound to the earth; one striking about 

 three hundred yards to the south-west of them, and the other 

 about one hundred yards north. 



They 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 smell. The other 

 struck a fence-corner, and breaking the ends of some of the 

 rails penetrated into the earth sixteen or eighteen inches, pass- 

 ing through a heap of dry leaves. The first weighed fifty -two 

 pounds. The other was broken up, but must have weighed about 

 forty pounds. Another of forty-one pounds 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 



