Account of Meteoric Stones and Masses of Iron, 
343. A shower of stones fell near Rome. — Jul. Ohsequens. 
Sll. Stones fell in China, along with a falling star.-De Giilgnes yhc. 
S05 or 206. Fiery Stones. — Plutarch^ Fab. Max. cap. 2. 
192. Stone fell in China. — De Gulgnes. 
176. A stone fell in the lake of Mars. — Lapldem In agro Crus- 
tummo in Lacum Mariis de coelo cecidisse.’’'' Liv. xli. 3. 
90 or 89. Eodem causam dicente, later Ihus coctis pluisse^ in 
ejus anni acta relatum est. Plin. Nat. Hist.^ lib, ii. cap. 56. 
89. Two large stones fell at Yong in Chma» The sound w£bs 
heard over forty leagues. De Gulgnes. 
56 or 52. Spongy iron fell in Lucania. Plin. 
46. Stones fell at Acilla. Caesar. 
38. Six stones fell in Leang in China. — De Gulgnes. 
29. Four stones fell at Po in China. — De Gulgnes. 
22. Eight stones fell from heaven, in China. — De Gulgnes. 
12. A stone fell at Ton-Kouan.— Gulgnes. 
9. Two stones fell in China. — De Gulgnes. 
6. Sixteen stones fell in Ning-Tcheon, and other two in the 
same yewc.^De Gulgnes. 
Division II. — Containing those, of which the date cannot 
be determined. 
The Mother of the Gods, which fell at Pessinus. 
The stone preserved at Abydos. — Plln. 
The stone preserved at Cassandria. — Plin. 
The Black Stone, and also another preserved in the Caaba of 
Mecca. 
The ‘‘ Thunderbolt, black in appearance like a hard rock, bril- 
liant and sparkling,” of which the blacksmith forged the sword 
of Antar. — See Quarterly Review, vol. xxi. p. 225. and An-> 
tar, translated by T. Hamilton, Esq. p. 152. 
Perhaps the stone preserved in the Coronation Chair of the 
Kings of England. 
^ Sect. II. — After the Christian Mra. 
A stone in the country of the Vocontini. — Plin. 
452. Three large stones fell in Thiace.^ Cedretius and Mar-^ 
cellini, Chronicon, p. 29. “ Hoc tempore,” says Marcellinus, 
tres magni lapides e ccelo in Thracia ceciderunt.” 
Sixth Century. — -Stones lell upon Mount Lebanon and near 
Emisa in Syria. — Damasclus. 
