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to me thunder. Generally speaking, it would seem to have occurred 
to two out of three as an over-head rather than an underground 
disturbance. My dog barked, no one being by, and she is a very 
silent one. This I heard myself. 
I find that at Priest’s Earm, half a mile E. of the u Bird-in- 
Hand,” the labourers were surprised at the action of ducks and 
fowls, all jumping and looking up. The effects were noticed at 
Wyfold Court (supposed to be thunder), and at Stoke Bow. — 
Superintendent Berdmore, Sonning Common, Henley-on-Thames. 
BERKSHIRE. 
Wootton and Shippon.— Doors, windows, and slates rattled at 
Wootton and Shippon, and at Shippon a man rushed out of doors, 
thinking that the house was falling.— 1 M. if.,’ p. 163. 
Abingdon.— The shock was distinctly felt at Abingdon. I was 
in church at the time (8*20 a.ru.), when there came a loud report 
as of an explosion, and all the members of the congregation, who 
were kneeling at the moment, looked up startled, expecting to see 
some catastrophe in the church, but all was quiet there. The pre¬ 
vailing idea then was that a dynamite explosion must have taken 
place in or near London.— “ C. LR Letter in ‘Morning Tost’ 
of Nov. 23. 
Marcham.— Doors, windows, and slates rattled.—‘ M. M .,’ p. 163. 
Pusey.—T he noise was heard here.— S. TV. Silver , [E.B.Met.Soc.,] 
Letcomh Manor, Wantage. 
Drayton. —Yery loud explosion, windows shaken.—‘ M. M ., ’ p. 16 3. 
"Wallingford.— A clergyman in the neighbourhood of Wallingford 
specially mentioned it [the meteor-explosion] to me .—Richard 
Hooper, [vicar of TJpton,] Upton Vicarage , Didcot. 
Wantage.— It was supposed that the Abingdon gas-works had 
blown up; a terrific explosion was heard; doors, windows, and 
even slates rattled.—‘ M. M.,' > p. 163. [Abingdon is N.E. from 
Wantage.] 
Letcomb.— [Time] about 8*15 a.m. The facts I collect do not 
go beyond this—that a noise almost stunning in effect was heard. 
A groom was out on a sick horse; although deaf, he felt or heard 
something , and the horse was so upset that he almost threw his 
rider.— S. TV. Silver, Lttcomb Manor. 
TJpton.—I was told by many persons in this neighbourhood that 
they heard the meteor-explosion.— Richard Hooper, Upton Vicarage. 
Bisham.— Loud noise heard at Bisham, four miles N.N.W. of 
Maidenhead.—‘ M. M p. 163. 
Upper Lamborne.— I distinctly heard what I took to be the 
report of a large cannon. It was as if it came from the N.W. My 
carter also heard the sound, and he asked me if it was thunder. 
It was just 8*20 a.m .—David Albury, Upper Lamborne, Swindon. 
Letter reprinted from 1 Reading Mercury ’ in 1 M. M .,’ p. 163. 
Beading.— At 8*18 I heard a sound like a heavy explosion, or 
[the report of] a big gun, very distant, followed, as I fancied, by a 
slight rumbling .—“ L. BR in 1 M. M.J p. 162. 
