Y AEROLITES. 421 
^®Sos, in Thrace. In the chronicle of CounS 
i**?® lia.!' is an account of tliree immensely large 
fsUen in Tlirace, in the year 452 before the 
Q ’'’icatt*j‘. pfoceed to more modern, and well 
M instances of the fall of aerolites. 
'^'*'1% .7^^' nf November, 1492, a little beiore noon, 
i, ’•'tly gj. *'nnder-clap was heard at Ensi.sheim, in Alsace, 
ij,.T which a child saw a huge stone fall on a field 
Pchm’' wheat. On searching, it was found to 
^ earth about three feet, and weighed 
iTii'^ie its size equal to a cube of thirteen inches 
w\ the I 
pile ’ contemporary writers agree in the reality 
H-exigt*'?9^®non, observing that, if such a stone had 
Tv Proh, • ® ploughed land, it must have been known 
-{‘y^Pf'etor. 
\ ®^toii.-'^®lcd astronomer Gassendi relates an instance 
\ .^7t'h^ ‘^^scent of which he was himself an eye-witness. 
St ^“''cnaber, 1627, the sky being clear, he saw 
PraL fall on Mont Vaisir, in the south-east ex- 
\*''''Ut Nice. While in the air, it seemed 
Na..<=ol, 
f feet in diameter ; was inclosed in a luminous 
v''^ 'ike °'i like a rainbow; and in its fall produced 
hard ^ discharge of cannon. It weighed Sglbs. 
of a dull metallic colour, and'hada specific 
yea greater than that of marble. 
V stones fell near Verona, in Italy, 
?\'l'>essgj 300, the other 200lbs. This phenomenon 
the evening, by three or four hundred 
\^^<lir(.^.? clones fell, with a violent explosion, in a 
I dU in calm weather. They appeared to 
i %3 “P ground. 
' tovv * traveller, relates that when he was at 
k V - 72lbs. fell in the vicinity. 
Vii. 9h.i be . - ... 
cd t( 
j ' of stone fell. It looked like iron dross. 
kV "-W 
7 'td , "'ei »),;'* Greece, near the gulf of Salonica, 
coing"? 72lbs. fell in the vicinity. It was ob- 
SpoI. t''0 northward, with a loud hissing 
cruecl tn k.^ i J : n _l_.. j 
Cl "heT^^u enveloped in a small cloud, which 
llrpknr .'he stone fell. It Innk-e<t like iron dmss. 
,^'''ptp'^®"'pluir. 
to several stones fell in the province 
IVr,. . tite West of Geneva : one in particular 
another at Liponas, places 
each other. The sky was clear. 
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