FALL OF A METEORIC STONE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3758, 13 January 1881, Page 3

FALL OF A METEORIC STONE.

Mr W. Emerson Mead, of New York, owns a place called Likeside Cottage, on the west bank of Schroon Lake, at which a' friend has been staying during the summer. From this gentleman Mr Mead has just received a letter telling of the fall of a remarkable meteoric stone on the night of September 22nd, close beside the cottage. The letter is dated 23rd insfc., ancl the writer thus describes tlie fall of the stone ;■ " Last night I safe here alone writing to a-relative. The children were all abed. My sister (who is keeping house V& for me during the absence of my wife) had gone upstairs for the night. I sat at the table' in the kitchen. It was dark out, and.the clouds were black and heavy. You could nbt,see your hand before you. AH at once "it became as light as noonday. I jumped to the window, and I could see the barn as plainly as in the day. I had not time to draw breath when the house trembled from cellar to garret. Out I went on the double quick: down came my sister frightened almost out of her senses. When we got but of doors there lay a red- j hot substance .about 20 feet from the | house. I threw kerosene on it, and it biased up. I threw sulphur on it and that burned readily. You.may be sure I: was astonished. I sat up all night watch- \ ing for morei but saw nothing else., When daylight came my Bister and I went out to make an inspection. There lay a clear white rock, weighing about 1251b. It had indented the ground about six inches. As it lay I should say it came from the north-east. There were a number of people here today to see it. One man offered me 25d0l for it. I told him it was no object, for I did not expect any more oftbesame right away. It was a great * Mr Mead has written to his tenant ordering him on no account to allow the stbrie to be removed, but to build a small house over it for, its preservation where it lies.—New York Herald.