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and followed down the slope of the hill all the way, until it 

 struck the ground a few yards from the north side of the 

 road, and about fifty yards west of the slate quarry, opposite 

 to Gleddy's Wheel, a well-known salmon pool about two 

 miles down the river Tweed from Holly lee. The light was 

 so brilliant, that all the road was illuminated, and, as Easton 

 expressed it, he could see to pick a pin off the road ; and he 

 observed the meteor was most brilliantly reflected on the 

 surface of the river. When the ball struck the ground, to 

 their astonishment it seemed to break, without much, if any 

 noise, into some thirty or forty fragments, which rolled down 

 the bank, on and over the turnpike road, and into the brush- 

 wood, and the river bank below. The portions of the fire- 

 ball, Easton stated, were of all sizes, from a foot-ball to a 

 marble ; and he considered they might then be about eighty 

 or a hundred yards from the place where it burst and crossed 

 the road. Both he and his comrade were much alarmed, as 

 the fire-ball seemed to be coming directly upon them ; and 

 they hurried on their way to Hollylee, without waiting to 

 make any further examination, being thankful for their 

 apparently very narrow escape from being struck down, by 

 such a formidable-looking stranger. 



Dr Stevenson Macadam said it was interesting to have 

 the story of the supposed fall of an aerolite detailed and 

 investigated, as in the present case. Some years ago the 

 fall of an aerolite in England was fully described in the 

 " Times." It so happened that the person on whose farm it 

 was believed to have fallen, was an acquaintance of the late 

 Dr George Wilson, whose assistant he (Dr Macadam) was 

 at the time. The supposed meteoric stone was picked up 

 and sent to Dr Wilson, and on chemical examination by Dr 

 Macadam, was discovered to be, as in this instance, simply 

 a mass of iron pyrites. 



IV. Remarks on a " Raised Beach" at Ardross, in the County of Fife. 

 By the Rev. Walter Wood, Elie. Communicated bv James 

 M'Bain, M.D., R.N. 



A short notice of this raised beach will be found in " The 

 East Neuk of Fife" (p. 323) ; but the heavy gales of last 



