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Through the kind interference of my friend, G. Laing, 

 Esq., Mr. Craufurd was so good as to send a part of the 

 stone which fell in Scotland to compare with the Yorkshire 

 one. It appears to consist of similar substances, and has 

 the same sort of coating, though the pyritaceous particles 

 are perhaps somewhat less conspicuous. 



This stone was seen to fall into a small drain of water, at 

 Possil Quarry, by two men, two boys and a dog, April 5, 

 1804. Among these was the overseer of the quarry, who 

 was talking to a man in a tree near the place. At the time 

 of its fall a noise was heard, which continued about two 

 minutes, beginning in the west, and passing by the south, 

 round towards the east, with as much noise at first as if 

 three or four cannon had been fired near the bridge, which 

 conducts the canal of Clyde and Forth over the river Kelvin, 

 a mile and half westward of the quarry ; and afterwards a 

 violent rushing whizzing noise ensued*. 



The overseer, upon observing the atmosphere, was alarmed 

 at seeing a misty commotion, and called to the man in the 

 tree, desiring him to come down, saying, " I think there is 

 some judgment coming upon us." The man was scarcely 

 got down, when something fell into the drain, splashing 

 the water about 20 feet round. The eldest boy observed 

 the appearance of smoke, and something reddish moving 

 rapidly through the air from the westward. The younger 

 boy, at the instant before the stroke against the ground, was 

 heard to call out, " such a reek!" He says he saw the 

 appearance of smoke near the place where the substance fell. 

 The overseer, when he observed a hole in the drain where 

 the substance appeared to them to have fallen, made his arm 

 bare, and thrust it into the cavity, which was not yet filled up, 

 the water being very shallow. It was nearly perpendicular, 



* The dog ran home as if frightened. The noise was heard by many 

 people at different places, within 20 miles, and 30 feet under ground in the 

 Possil Quarry. 



