202 Mr . Grevtlle’s Account of some Stones 
parts of India, I inquired whether he had ever heard of any 
instances similar to the explosion of the meteor at Benares in 
1798. He told me, he could not recollect having heard or read 
of any other instance, excepting one in the Memoirs written by 
the Emperor Jehangire, and of that he did not recollect the 
particulars. A few days after, having found the passage in the 
original Persian, he was so obliging as to translate it. I consider 
it as an authentic fact; for the Emperor Jehangire was not a 
prince on whom his courtiers would idly venture to impose; 
and there can be little probability that an Aumil of a district 
should invent such a story, or be able to produce a substance 
apparently like iron, but which, on trial, differed from manufac- 
tured iron. Colonel Kirkpatrick’s translation, I have obtained 
his leave to communicate, with his attestation, to the Royal 
Society. 
Extract from the Memoirs of the Emperor Jehangire, written ( in 
Persian ) by himself and translated by Colonel Kirkpatrick. 
A, H. 1030, or 1 6 th year of the reign . — The following is 
among the extraordinary occurrences of this period. 
Early on the 30th of Furverdeen, of the present year,* and 
in the Eastern quarter, [of the heavens^] there arose in one of 
the villages of the Purgunnah of Jalindher,-f such a great and 
tremendous noise as had nearly, by its dreadful nature, deprived 
the inhabitants of the place of their senses. During this noise, 
a luminous body {[was observed [j to fall from above on the 
* The first of Furverdeen of this year, (A. H. 1030,) corresponded with Saturday, 
the 27th of Rubbi til Akhir; consequently, the 30th of Furverdeen fell on the 26th of 
Jummad ul Ouwul, or A. D. 1620. 
f A purgunnah is a territorial division, of arbitrary extent. The purgunnah of 
Jalindher is situated in the Punjaub, and about 100 miles S. E. of Lahore. 
