that have Jallen fiom the Meavens, 
scepticism which discreclits every thing that it cannot under- 
stand, than the ci-rcunastmice that this work should have produ- 
ced so little effect, and that the numerous falls of meteoric 
stones should have so long been ranked among the inventions of 
ignorant credulity. 
CnA?. I. — CnaoNOLQGiCAL LiSiT OF Meteorig Stones.\^ 
Sect. 1. — Before the Christian Mra. 
Bivision I. — Containing those which can be pretty nearly 
referred to a date. 
A.C, 
1478. The thunderstone in Crete, mentioned by Malchus, and 
regarded probably as the symbol of Cybele. — Chronicle of 
Paros, 1. 18, 19. 
1451. Shower of stones which destroyed the enemies of Joshua 
i at Beth-horon.— chap. x. v. 11 
1200. Stones preserved at Orchomenos. — Pausanias. 
1168. A mass of iron upon Mount Ida in Crete. — Chronicle 
of Paros, 1. 22. 
705 or 704. The Ancylt or sacred shield, which fell in the reign 
of Numa. It had nearly the same shape as those which fell 
at the Cape and at Agmm.^Plutarch, in Num. 
654. Stones which fell upon Mount Alba, in the reign of Tullus 
Hostilius. — - ‘‘ Crebri cecidere ecelo lapides.”— Xit;. 1. 81. 
644. Five Stones which fell in China, in the country of Song. — 
De Guignes. 
466. A large stone at -^gospotamos, vrhich Anaxagoras suppos- 
ed to come, from thfe sun. It was as large as a cart, and of a 
burnt colour. “ Qui lapis etiam nunc ostenditur, magnitudine 
vehis, colore sAw.^to^’^^’^Plutarch, Pliny, lib. ii. cap. 58. 
465. A stone near Thebes.^*S'c/mZ«/5^^if^ (f Pindar, 
461. A stone fell in the marsh of Ancona. Valerius Maxi- 
mus, Liv. lib. 7. cap. 28. 
* The word ahenim^ which, according t,o Parkhurst, signifies stones 
in general, has been trajislate^d, without any reason, hailstones, in our version of 
the Bible* In the Book of Job, however, ch. 28. v. 3., the same word is tirans- 
lated stones of darkness, meaning, says Scott, “ undoubtedly metallic stones or 
metals which man searches out.” Miss Smith, in her Translation of Job, attaches 
the very same meaning to the word, 
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