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APPENDIX. 
III. 
Account of the Stones that fell from the Sky on the ^Oth Decembers 
1799, referred to in p. 119. . 
Related by Gauzy Syud Hussein Ally. 
On the ^Oth of December 1 798, (ought to be 9) or 27th of Aghun 
1 906 Fussily, when four ghurries of the night had passed, a great 
meteor, which in the Hindoo language is called Look, fell from the 
westward. It gave a great light, and breaking in the air, divided 
into several pieces. First, three reports like the firing of cannon 
were heard, afterwards many like the firing of musquets. At that 
time no one saw any thing fall ; but next morning, when the vil- 
lagers went out of the village to take their cattle to graze, and to 
watch their corn-fields, they saw pieces of stone which had fallen. 
The number of angles of the stones was from eight to three, and 
they weighed from five seer (about ten lbs.) to four pice (about a 
quarter of a pound). They had fallen on the fallow and cultivated 
fields out of the village, but not on the house of any one : whoever 
found them carried them away. They fell on a space of one coss 
(two miles) in length in the villages Jewar, and Secroreh, in the 
Viziers dominions, and in the villages Guddowlee, Cutthowlee, 
and Gopoulpoor, in Tuppeh Pissareh, in the Company's territories. 
The stones were of a black colour, and a smell came from them 
like that of burnt gunpowder. On being broken they appeared in- 
ternally like shining sand of a crumbling nature. 
