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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 tlie 
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 acquaintaDce 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 BeacW at Ardross, in the County of Fife. 
By the Rev. Walter Wood, Elie. Conimuiiicated by 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 
