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did in a north-east direction from the sea-coast — numbers 

 of persons distinguished a body passing through the clouds/ 

 though not able to ascertain what it was : and two sons of 

 the clergyman of Wold Newton (a village near me) saw it 

 pass so distinctly by them, that they ran up immediately to 

 my house, to know if any thing extraordinary had happened . 



In the different villages over which the stone took its 

 direction, various were the people who heard the noise of 

 something passing through the air, accurately and distinctly, 

 though they could not imagine what was the cause of it : 

 and in many of the provincial newspapers these accounts 

 were published at the time from different persons. 



In fact, no circumstance of the kind had ever more con- 

 current testimonies : and the appearance of the stone itself, 

 while it resembles in composition those which are supposed 

 to have fallen in various other parts of the world, has no 

 counterpart or resemblance in the natural stones of the 

 country. 



The stone in its fall excavated a place of the depth before 

 mentioned, and of something more than a yard in diameter. 

 It had fixed itself so strongly in the chalk rock, that it re- 

 quired some labour to dig it out. 



On being brought home, it was weighed ; and the exact 

 weight, at that time, was 50 pounds; which has been di- 

 minished in a small degree at present, by different pieces 

 being taken from it as presents to different literati of the 

 country. Mr. King, the antiquarian, in his account of 

 Sky -fallen Stones, has published an account of this, with 

 many curious and learned remarks on those which have fallen 

 at different periods. 



All the three witnesses who saw it fall agree perfectly in 

 their account of the manner of its fall, and that they saw a 

 dark body passing through the air, and ultimately strike 

 into the ground : and though, from their situation and 

 characters in life, they could have no possible object in 



