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These fragments, which are of all sizes up to about 3 inches in 
diameter, have no appearance of having been carried along in 
water, as the corners are perfectly angular, and they are not 
embedded in the clay, but rest on the surface as if they had only 
been just laid there. I could not find out where they came 
journey. An explanation, offered by Mr. Crosse, a squatter in 
are situated, that the stones are of meteoric origin seems to me 
not to meet the difficulty. First, it seems strange that there 
should in that part of the country have been such a very large 
shower of meteoric stones when in the rest of the world showers 
to give up the idea of examining them. I believe they are to be 
found scattered over a large area of the north-western part of the 
Colony, as I heard of them being in many places, and from 
