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CORRESPONDENCE ON THE COLD BOKKEVELD METEOROLITE. 
The inclosed sketch of that part of this division where the falling of the meteoro- 
lites has been observed, will I trust give you an accurate idea of its course : it ap- 
peared to come from over the summits of the Schurfde Berg. The accidental 
circumstance of a waggon being near the foot of that mountain, where the meteor 
passed over the heads of the people employed in collecting a load of fire-wood, has 
enabled me to obtain a deposition from one of these persons, which I inclose here- 
with. 
Any fragments which I may be able further to collect I shall forward to you by an 
early opportunity. 
Believe me, my dear Sir, 
Most truly yours, 
J. Treuter. 
P.S. The large piece is of the first, the small one of the second explosion. — Vale ! 
Affidavit. 
I, the undersigned Kieviet, Bastaard Hottentot, maketh oath, that about the 
month of October last year I was in the service of Barend Jooste, of the Field Cor- 
netcy of the First Cold Bokkeveld District of Worcester. On the morning of the 
13th of that month, my master, myself, and another Bastaard Hottentot named Jacob 
Rooy, proceeded in a waggon to the mountain at the back of my master’s house to 
fetch wood. It was a fine clear morning ; there were no clouds in the sky, and there 
was no wind. At about nine o’clock a.m., whilst we were busy loading the waggon 
with the wood, close to the foot of the mountain, we heard a strange noise in the air 
resembling the loudest thunder we had ever heard, and on looking up we perceived 
a stream passing over our heads, issuing a noise which petrified us with terror ; a 
burst took place close to the waggon, when something fell and a smoke arose from the 
grass. My master sent me to look what it was that had fallen, when I found a stone 
quite warm, so much so that I could not hold it in my hands : I brought it to my 
master, I do not know what he did with it. This stone now produced to me is part 
of the one I took up ; it might have been then about the weight of seven or eight 
pounds. 
Sworn before me, at Worcester, 
this 30th day of April 1839, 
J. Treuter, 
Mark of 
X 
Kieviet, 
As Witnesses, 
James Rattray. 
