322 GUERNSEY COUNTY (OHIO) METEORITES. 



observers at more distant points, as already published by Pro- 

 fessors Andrews and Evans. From the data they have collected 

 they consider the area over which the explosion was heard as 

 probably not less than one hundred and fifty miles in diameter. 

 "At Marietta, Ohio, the sound came from a point north or a 

 little east of north. The direction of the sound varied with 

 the locality. An examination of all the different directions 

 leads to the conclusion that the central point from which the 

 sound emanated was near the southern part of Noble County, 

 Ohio;" its course being "over the eastern end of Washington 

 County, then across the interior of Noble County, then over 

 the south-western corner of Guernsey and the north-eastern 

 corner of Muskingum, with a direction of about forty-two 

 degrees west of north." 



Mr. D. Mackley, of Jackson County, states that he was at 

 Berlin, six miles east of Jackson, Ohio, when he saw in a north- 

 east direction a ball of fire about thirty degrees above the 

 horizon. It was flying in a northerly direction with great 

 velocity. It appeared as white as melted iron, and left a 

 bright streak of fire behind it, which soon faded into a white 

 vapor. This remained more than a minute, when it became 

 crooked and disappeared. 



Mr. Wm. C. Welles, of Parkersburg, Virginia (lat. 39° 10', 

 long. 81° 24'), about sixty miles south of Cambridge, saw the 

 meteorite as a ball of fire of great brilliancy emerging from 

 behind one cloud and disappearing behind another. Other 

 observers at some distance to the south of the point where 

 the fall occurred saw this meteorite as a luminous body. 



Prof. Evans, of Marietta, in his observations states : 



" The successive reports heard at great altitudes in the district where the 

 stones fell, and apparently connected with the descent of the separate pieces 

 through the clouds, were entirely distinct from the one great detonation which 

 was heard at great distances from that district. The former were distinctly 

 heard only over an area of a few miles. The latter shook the buildings from 

 Wheeling, Virginia, to Athens County, Ohio. It is ascertained by careful 

 inquiries to have "been heard from Columbiana County on the north-east to 

 within eight miles of Chillicothe on the south-west, and from Knox County 

 on the north-west to the borders of the third tier of counties in Virginia on 

 the south-east— an area of about one hundred and fifty miles in diameter. At 

 all places within this area, except those near Cambridge and New Concord, 

 it was described as a single sound, a sudden concussion resembling thunder 

 or the discharge of a heavy piece of ordnance, followed by a roar of about 



