The only eyewitness at close quarters seems to have been a na-rivel. watchman, who saw what he described as a white ball of fire coming from the sky, accompanied by a loud roaning noise. As it flashed past him at a range of some 20¢ yards, he appears to have become stupefied, and did not see it actually strike.
To more distant witnesses the meteorite appeared as a broad straight ribbon of lightning, which terminated in a deafening thunderclap. Observers three miles away, whose view of the occurrence was obscured by low clouds and heavy rain, record an exce} tionally bright flash, followed by a concussion which shook the windows of their houses.
Examination of the cooled and solidified substance of the meteorite, supplemented by observations of the stack prior to its burning out, jead one to believe that it had 1 definite shape, with a distinct head and tail. The meteoric materis! collected weighed some six tons, with a total volume of some 300 cubic feet. These data, and the small size of the hole originally made by it in the stack, appear to warrant the supposition that, when travelling through the air, its shape must have been that of a small sind elongated comet. of molten ard vaporous consistency.
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