,ur. They subsequently acquired 
common to these stones, 
these phenomena thus strongly con* 
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w®® thousand ; and the largest of them weighed 
They were friable some days after their fall, 

Wdness com 
N the'? 
f ■^‘hia ‘“tig-exploded idea of the vulgar, that many of 
meteors observed in the atmosphere, are masses 
'[vPliot ^‘“'^ter, an account of one of precisely the same 
' received from tlie East Indies. On the 19th 
®r, 179b. at eight in the evening, a large fire-ball, 
, In •, tt?®teor, was seen at Benares, and at several 
V’^nd* f^'^imty. It was attended by a loud rumbling 
Nm t time, the inhabitants of Krakhut, 
V a '1 Benares, saw the light, heard what re- 
1) thunder-clap, and, immediately after, the 
bodies fidling around tliem. Next morning 
'V^^y sj)'*' fields was found to have been turned up 
5 and unusual stones' of various sizes, but of 
pfistances, were picked out of the moist soil, 
■ “m a depth of six inches. One stone fell 
the 
th, 
mof of a hut, and buried itself in the eartbes'. 
S*'** P^ts*^ multiplied evidences it is proved that, in 
vSvit)- file world, luminous meteors have been 
Sit!'‘‘''iior'”'^°“°^ air with surprising rapidity, in a 
W?nly i.!"® °r less oblique, accompanied with a noise, 
and whizzing of cannon balls, followed by 
hard, stony, or semi-metallic 
ef state. The constant whizzing sound; 
'‘“lies b - • 
in t 
in!-^“‘^ 7 j or its fragments had been seen to move ;; 
rvu!°“®® being found, similar to each other, but 
in th 
i/joi 
Pton" .P^° 
Jl'C'Siibo stones ; the concussion 
lij'^ * louna, simuar lo eacn otiier, Due 
f V'‘''insK^* m the vicinity, at the spots towards which 
““yj or its fragments had been seen to move ;; 
n ih . S or ploughing up of the soil at those spots. 
l^v'^Sing ground at the same time; and, especially, 
A ^ iyion^l stones on bodies somewhat above the 
auq on its surface, are circumstances per- 
bodies somewhat above the 
ace, are circumstances 
^te n'su^M in these reports j proving that 
* air . ^ inflamed hard masses, descending ra 
^o the earth. 
such 
nding rapidly 
