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solid mass, and are not to be attributed to the usual causes of combustion and 
explosions. 
Camp , 26th October, 1831. 
Since writing the above, I have heard that at a large village called Khnnpur, 
two miles south-west of this, the people ran out of their houses for fear of their 
tumbling down ; many people were thrown down, and some atone* fell from the 
northern gate. 
YU Notice of the Fall of an Aerolite. % J. Malcolmaon, Mailrai 
Medical Establishment. 
On the 2d of last January, at 3 a. M. the inhabitant, of «hc village of M-nya- 
patuam, in the Tal6k of JamalmadUgfi, in the Cadapab dtatnet, l.at. U 4.) 
north Lone. 78” 19' east, were alarmed I, y four success, re loud report, as of a 
gun, pasaingfrom north to south, and by the appearance of a bright light, as ' ■">- 
her had lighted torches previous to an attack o„ the village, and compared I y l . 
inhabitants to “day,” or the “ fall of a great star.” 
ran on, and saw a large ball fall on the bank of a u»ll.h, ^ \ 
It had sunk in the ground and was broken to piece s soine wind. »ei re . o 
the collector. It appears to have been more than half a foot .» ham ter , 
ternal surface is black, round and polished, bn, tins eoatingisv^ « > 
i, is of a light grey color, granulated and „[ the Mint at Madras, 
specimen was examined by an able chemi > • deserves to be men- 
ami found tocontaiu nickel and the other usual tngrer icn s. ■ ^ ^ fingerl( 
tioned, that when first eaamined the storm “^^mena'a, tending the fall, seem 
but became hard on exposure. Tins P atmosphere, 
to confirm the theory of the formation of llirac , Collector, to be 
A small specimen will be forwarded to you by H. Laton, tst, 
presented to the Asiatic Society. tbe promised specimen, 
Note.-We trust that our correspondent will { * possession.- Fn. 
that it may be compared with four other Indian ae, elites 
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(“Continued from page 357.] 
• pi* tli Jit wc b&d niftuC 
It was stated at the conclusion of the preceding P«P^ army . The 
igements for travelling to Herat, under esC0 it may be well to refer to 
ter to describe the occasion of its coming o 
■ history of the Afghans. (minded A. I>. 1747, fell to his 
rhe great empire which Ahmed Shah Du'™ < Mn8 , came to the 
t Timur, in 1773. Shah Zeman, ‘/V^ pe was iiposed a,,d bltadcd 
one upon the death of his fathei, A. • ’ , jjj g r i se less to an) merit 
the year 1801, by his half-brother Mahmud, « 1 n cb i e f of the powerful tribe 
his own, thantotheboldenterprizeofFutte > onby Zemin Shah, and 
Barikzye, whose father had been executed ^ that monarch, and 
10 at once satisfied his revenge and ambition, ) ^ 8hor t and unsettled, 
iking himself Mahm fid’s vazir. The usurpe jj wUen be was deposed m 
ilitary force alone upheld him till the suunnei 
