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west of its path, and whose testimony so far agrees with the 

 foregoing as to give results ranging between thirty-seven and 

 forty-four miles. Care has been taken as far as possible to 

 verify the data in each case by personal examination of the 

 witnesses. The angles have in most instances been taken as 

 pointed out by them from their respective posts of observation. 

 It is unfortunate that no case has come to our knowledge in 

 which the meteor was seen from the region east of its path. 

 But it was a circumstance in some respects favorable to the 

 definiteness of the observations made from the west side that 

 the observers in nearly all cases saw the meteor only at one 

 point, or within a very small space, on the heavens. It is 

 impossible to reconcile the various accounts without granting 

 that its path was very nearly as above described, and that 

 its height did not vary far from forty miles as it crossed 

 Noble County. 



" In regard to the time which intervened at different places 

 between seeing the fire-ball and hearing the report, the state- 

 ments are so vague that not much reliance has been placed 

 upon them. It may be remarked, however, that they will 

 essentially agree with the foregoing conclusions, if we suppose 

 that the loudest explosion took place in the southern part of 

 Noble County. 



" I will add under this head the statement of Mr. Joel Eich- 

 ardson, of Warren, Washington County, who from a place six 

 miles west of Marietta saw the meteor as much as 15° or 20° 

 west of north at an altitude of about 45°. The direction in 

 this case was so oblique to the meteor's path that the data are 

 of little value for simply determining the height; but they are 

 important on account of their connection with the place of the 

 meteor's last appearance. Mr. Eichardson was visited by the 

 writer, and his testimony was subjected to close scrutiny. If 

 we take the azimuth at 15° west of north, we shall have a dis- 

 tance of forty-one miles to the line under the meteor's path ; 

 and these data will give about forty -one miles for its vertical 

 height over a point not more than a mile from New Concord, 

 at the extreme western limit of the district along which the 

 meteorites were scattered. If we take the azimuth at 20° west 

 of north, both the distance and the height will be greatly aug- 

 mented. I have found two persons living near Bear Creek, 



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