432 On Stones, 
rule; and of courfe concluded that the 
apofiles were fae- -preachers, fuch as fome- 
times hold forth now-a-days in the Qua- 
ker-mee ‘tings—that the ancient dé/bops 
were o/d women—that the dzacons were 
young damjels attending cn their right 
reverend lady ee a the angels all 
of the jemale fox, as T have fomewhere 
read that Mahon aoe has” defcribed. the 
Houris. 
Whatever affiftance and. information 
may be given to me on thefe points, will 
be received with. becoming gratitude by, 
isi Yr, your humble fervant, 
Novw.7, 1803. GRAMMATICASTER. 
See 
For the Monibly Magazine. 
€uricus Facts relating to STONES and 
other SUBSTANCES, fuid to have fallen 
at diferent periods,’ and in different 
places, from the CLOUDS. 
N che fowteenth volume of the Month- 
ly Magazine* we have given a bref 
account of Mr. Howard’s experiments and 
obfervations on certain fiony fubitances, 
which are {aid to have fallen, at different 
periods, on the earth ; and in the 523d 
page of the fame velume, the fubje& is 
refumed rather mre at large. In feveral 
of the later numbers of Mr. ‘Tilloch’s = 
cellent work ent.tied the ** Philcfophical 
Magazine,” we have, tranflated ehicy 
from French journals of vefpectabiliry, 
fome Memoirs of Stones’ which were not 
noticed in Mr. Howard’s Account, printed 2 
in the Philofephical Tranfactions. 
The meteor which appeared on the 13th 
of the prefent month (Nov.), and em 
was feen at the fame’ can ae nimany parts 
of the kingdom, widel y difant (come é ea ach 
other, and which will be pce, no- 
ticed in the Meteorological Repert, at the 
end of the> prefent number, has excited 
new intereft to fubjects of this kind, and 
en thet account, we prefume it will be ac- 
ceptable to our readers to have an abridg- 
ed and methodical narrative of what has 
lately appeared in other refpectable publi 
cations, both in our own and foreign lan- 
guages; and for the fake of order we 
thaii range the fa@s according to the jeve- 
yal dates at which theie rhenemena ere 
faid to have ha *ppened, giving in tlre mar- 
gin the authorities upon which they de- 
pend. 
The ftone which fell at Enfifheim in Al- 
face,and which 1s generally knoan bythe 
name of the &* Stone of Enfitheim,” made a 
confiderable nvife about the end of the fif- 
teenth century. The following notice re- 
* Page 97. ° 
t. fad to have fallen from the Clouds. 
[Dec. 1, | 
fpeGting it was formerly preferved with 
the ftcne in the parifh church of the 
place. 
“ On Wednefday, Nov. 7, the night 
before St: Martin’s day, in the year of ovr 
Lord 1492, a fincular miracle, happened : 
for between the hoers of eleven and twelve 
a loud clap of thunder teck place, with a 
iong-continued noife, which was heard at. 
a great diftance; and a fone fe!! from the 
beads in the Ban of Enfifheim wh'ch 
weighed 260 pounds; and the noife was 
much louder in other places than here. 
A child then ‘aw it ftrike on a field fituat- 
ed on the upper Ban, towards the Rhine 
and the In, near the caston of Gifgane, 
which’ was fown with wheat. It did na 
hurt, except that it made a hole there. 
It was afterwards tran{ported thence ; 
and a great many fragments were detach- 
ed from it, which the lavide vogt forbade, 
It-weas then depobted in the hariele with 
intention cf iufpending it as a miracle; 
and a great many people caine hither to 
fee th s flone, respeciing which there were 
fingular Bihoaciee But the learned faid 
they did not know what it was, for it was 
fons ething fupersatural that fo large a _ 
ficne thou!d fall from the armo(phere 5 but . 
that it wes a miracle of Ged: becaule, 
before that time, nothis g of the kind had 
ever beei yeaa of, fien, or defcribed. 
When this tone was found, it had entered 
the earth to a depth equal to the height of 
man. What every body afferted was, 
that it had been the will of God that it 
fhould be found. And the noife of it 
was heard at Tucerne, at Villmg, and 
many other places, fo laud, that 1t was 
thought the houies were al! overturned. 
And when king Max'milian was here, the 
Monday af.er St. Catharine’s day of ‘the 
1¢ year, bis royal excellency cauled the 
ftone which had fallen to be carried to the 
cattle; an! after converfing a long time 
with ig lords, he Paid the people A En- 
fifheim fhould take it: and he gave orders 
that it fhonld be fulpended in the church, 
and that no perfon fxould be permitted to 
take any pone of it. His excellency, 
however, tock two fragments; one of 
which he kep:, and the pre ie fent to 
Duke Sig: fmund of Auftria. The pec- 
ple talked’ a great deal of this fone, which 
was fufpended in the choir, where it fell 
is, and many came to fee it."* 
Befides this we have other autherities 
in benalf cf this extraordinary circum- 
* Arithenicus in Chronico Hirfaugienfi, 
in Vita Biavii Aboatis xl ad Annum 1492. 
Egit, M.S, Galli, 2690, Vol, il. p. 55° a 
itance, 
