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Mr. Greville’s Account of some Stones, &c, 
through the roof of a cottage, and killed a herdsman and some 
cattle. M. St. Am and also gave me part of a stone he had 
preserved in his collection ever since the year 1750, when a 
shower of stones, weighing from \ an ounce to 15 and 25 
pounds each, fell in the parishes of Grange and Creon, and also 
in the parish of Juliac, in Armagnac; which fact w r as, at the 
time, verified by Duby, Mayor of Armile, and published by 
Bertholon, in the Journal des Sciences utiles de Montpellier, 
in the year 1790. 
The third specimen, I owe to the Marquis de Dree ; it is a 
fragment, broken from a stone of 22 pounds weight, which fell 
near the village Salles, not far from Villefranche in Burgundy, 
on the 12th of March, 1798 ; this was also accompanied by a 
meteor. 
I content myself with the mere recital of the facts, in confir- 
mation of the observations presented to the Society, as these 
three additional specimens have precisely the same characters, 
texture, and appearance, as the others in my collection ; and 
are scarcely, by the eye, to be distinguished from them. 
I should not, perhaps, have troubled the Society with this 
account, as my friend the Marquis de Dree, whose knowledge 
in mineralogy peculiarly qualifies him to investigate these sub- 
jects, has given me hopes of seeing his observations on them 
published ; but a new evidence has lately fallen into my hands, 
and is the only one I have met with that ascertains the origin 
of native iron, which, from analysis, had been suspected to have 
a common origin with the stones fallen on the earth. Con- 
versing with Colonel Kirkpatrick, whose researches have 
embraced both the literature and politics of India, and whose 
talents had placed him in very important situations in various 
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