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The accurate chemical analysis of Yauguelin, however, detected 
in it the same peculiar constituents as in other stones stated on 
similar rustic testimony to have fallen from the sky in other 
places ; and the truth of this marvellous story is at last as fully 
admitted by the learned as by the vulgar, the Landgvot and 
the Emperor, in the fifteenth century. The just conclusion 
from the foregoing anecdotes is obviously this—that the clearest 
evidence of truth, next to that of our own senses, is that of a 
plain fact attested by a creditable witness. 
The following account of the fall of the Meteorite by 
Professor A. S. Herschel, was first published in the Newcastle 
Daily Chronicle^ March 16th, 1881 :— 
FALL OF A METEOEITE. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY CHRONICLE. 
Sir,—An unusual natural phenomenon was observed near 
Middlesbrough, about a fortnight ago, at 3.35 p.m. on Monday 
afternoon, March 14th inst., at a point known as Pennyman’s 
Siding, on the North Eastern Pail way Company’s branch line, 
from Middlesbrough to Griiisborough, about a mile and three- 
quarters from Middlesbrough, and between the Middlesbrough 
and Ormesby Stations of the Griiisborough line. On the after¬ 
noon of a particularly bright day, the air being calm and the 
sun shining, three platelayers were at work with the permanent 
way inspector (Mr. W. Ellinor), near the signal-box of the 
above siding, which one of them had just entered, when Mr. 
Ellinor drew their attention to a rushing or roaring sound over¬ 
head, which they had scarcely time to notice when it ceased, 
and a thud in the ground near them following it almost imme¬ 
diately, convinced them that a heavy body of some sort had 
flown down through the air and struck the earth at no great 
distance from them. The platelayer in the signal-house, the 
windows of which were open, also heard the sound, and thought 
that something had been thrown at the signal-box by his com¬ 
panions outside to recall him, or to attract his attention. The 
men strayed together towards the point where the ground 
seemed to have been struck, into the siding-field and along the 
