1208, ] 
was. given above; with this further particu- 
lar, that they heard, about a minute after the 
explosion, the fall of the stone, at the noise 
of which they were much alarmed, but could 
not discover the cause. After it was light, 
Mr. Prince went gut to feed his hogs, and 
passing across the court yard, discovered a 
hole in the glass plat, only twenty-seven 
feet from his house, and enquired of his fa- 
mily if they knew who had made it. The 
ground appeared fresh broken, and no dirt 
thrown out He looked into it, but could 
see nothing, and no further discovery was 
made until evening, when his sons returned 
from a town-meeting at Weston, where they 
heard of the fill of the stone at Seeley’s. 
This induced them to examine further the 
bole in the court yard. On hauling out the 
dirt which lay loosely over the stone, they 
soon discovered it, and touk it out entire, ex- 
cept some small pieces that were broken off 
by stones in the ground. We examined the 
hole, and found the sod and grass, as in the 
other case, driven before the stone to the bot- 
tom of the hole, which we took up, with 
pieces of the stone that had not before been 
found. The hole was perpendicular in the 
earth, and in diameter no larger than the 
stone. A Mr. David Hubbell, a man of un- 
doubted veracily, was passing in the street, 
about twenty-five rods from this stone when 
it fell, who saw aball of fire, emitting sparks, 
with a tail about four feet long, shoot across 
the horizon in a southerly direction, which 
wert out, he said, nearly at the place where 
the sun js at one o’clock in the summer time; 
and in asout a minute or two afterwards he 
heard the explosion, which he described as 
the others had done; and a minute or two 
after that, lie heard a loud whistling through 
the air, which made a noise like a hurricane. 
‘The came appearances and explosions were 
witnessed by Judge Wheeler and Russel 
Tomiinson, who were ten miles distant from 
each other; men of great candour and care- 
tui observation; but being distant from the 
place where these stones fell, neither of them 
heard the whistling just mentioned. The 
largest piece of the stone taken vut of Prince’s 
yard, waich remains entire, weighs about 
eleven pounds, and is now in my possession 5 
the rest of it has been broken into small 
parts, and scattered amongst the inhabitants. 
‘© The third and last place where these 
stones have been discovered to have fallen, is 
about five miles north-east of Mr. Prince’s, 
and seven below Newtown, near the turnpike 
road, which leads from thence to Bridgeport. 
‘¢ jhe stone which fell here was small, 
and failing upon the top of a rock that pro- 
jected two feet above the ground, was dashed 
into small fragments, none of which weighed 
more than four or five ounces; and it was 
judged the whole of these cullected would 
not mere than have half filled a quart mea- 
sure. his stone fel) about thirty yards from 
the house of Mr. Merwin Burr: he and his 
Wi-e being up, they both ran to the door the 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
165 
moment they discovered the flashes of light, 
and ina minute or two heard the same explo- 
sion as heretofore described; and in about a 
minute after the explosion they heard some- 
thing fall near by them which made quite a 
loud report; and in quick succession three or 
four other noises at greater distance, which 
they thought to be something falling in a 
swamp, twenty or thirty rods in front of the 
house. Mr. Burr took a candle, ‘and with his 
wife went out,immediately, to see if they 
could find any thing in the direction where 
they heard the loudest report, but found no- 
thing ; ; when it grew lighter, and before sun- 
tise, Mr. Burr went.again, and found the frag- 
ments of the stone which had been dashed to 
pieces on the rock, and which have precisely 
the same appearance as those found at the two 
former places; the swamp being full of wa- 
ter, has not been expiored. Besides the large 
piece, I have many smaller ones collected at 
these three different places by Mr. Holly and 
myself, exactly resembling each other; and 
frcm the mouths of all these witnesses | have 
named (except Mr. Burr, who happened to be 
from home) we have taken the facts just as I 
have here related them. The ball of fire and 
explosion were witnessed by hundreds ia this 
and the neighbouring towns. 
«¢ This stone I presume, possesses considera- 
ble iron, as it is strongly attracted to the nee- 
die; I judge it is one-fourth heavier than the 
common gyranite. ‘The outside is covered 
with asmooth, glazed, sooty crust, about as 
thick as foolscap paper, looking like the bick 
of a chimney 5 and the broken surfaces are of 
a blueish lead colour, the whole appearing ta 
have undergone the action of intense heat. 
The body of stone which fell at Seeley's 
must have weighed more than one hundred 
pounds.” 
DENMARK. 
The Supreme Court of Justice, at Co- 
penhagen, lately laid befure the King, 
an account of all criminals in the Danish 
dominions, including Iceland and the Tn- 
dian colonies, on whom seutence has 
been passed in the year 1806; in which 
it is stated that two hundred and five cri- 
minals, eighteen of whom were e foreigners, 
were in that year sentenced to carporeal 
punishment, five for murder, eight for 
other capital crimes, seven for forgery, 
and the rest for inferior offences. The 
number of criminals bears a proportion 
to the whole population of tie kingdom 
and colonies as one to ten thousand. 
AUSTRRAD 1. 
The emperor has allowed all booksel- 
lers in his dominions to sell those books 
which had been prohibited by the /impe- 
ror Joseph IL, provided that such books 
still remained in their warehouses and 
that no fresh sets should be imported, 
nor any new editions printed. 
Alpi heticat 
