any explosion in tlie vicinity. I also inquired of a man who 
had been at Welbury during the afternoon, and he stated that 
at the exact time he, as well as some platelayers near the station, 
heard it, and at first thought it was some one tipping a large 
quantity of stones, but in the direction from which it appeared 
no such tipping of stones could have taken place.* The sky 
was quite clear of clouds, dull, and the air cold. 
I am, &c., 
‘‘ "\Y. R. Smithsox. 
‘‘Northallerton, March 30th, 1881.” 
—This direction, hy Mr. W, R. Smithson’s later enquiries in the Cleve¬ 
land district, was N.E. (of the bounce), and S.E. hy E. of the following rumble 
ox echo-Uhc crash (like tipping stones) of the report. Welbury is 12 miles from 
Middlesbrough, in the Northallerton direction. 
Other accounts were N.N.E. at the Codbeck, 4 miles East from Northallerton ; 
N.E. at Northallerton; N.N.AV. at Chopgate in Bidsdale; places 18, 19, and 8 
miles respectively from the place of fall. The place of the meteoiite’s discovery 
was, on a map, nearly in the directions named at these several places, as that of 
the apparent origin of the sound. 
A fresh N.E. wind seems to have made it inaudible at any other places in the 
district, excepting at a few neighbouring ones to those here mentioned in the 
same general S.—S.W. direction. 
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