. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science. 00 Oil 111 I' lion Meleoritc Inminoiis cil" an estimated height of 250 miles ahove the earth. It is revK/rkrflle iliat it teas not visible at the point where flie meteoric mass fell, jji-obably on aceoniit of a small cloud of com- ])ressed matter collecterl in front of ;—{Science for All.) Tlie fifry-six pound meteorite, which fell, at 3 I*. M. on Dec. 13th, 1795, near Wohl Cottao^e. , Yorkshire. England (within ten yai'ds of where a lahorei' was working), is remarka- hle for the very j-eason that '' no thunder, lightn
. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science. 00 Oil 111 I' lion Meleoritc Inminoiis cil" an estimated height of 250 miles ahove the earth. It is revK/rkrflle iliat it teas not visible at the point where flie meteoric mass fell, jji-obably on aceoniit of a small cloud of com- ])ressed matter collecterl in front of ;—{Science for All.) Tlie fifry-six pound meteorite, which fell, at 3 I*. M. on Dec. 13th, 1795, near Wohl Cottao^e. , Yorkshire. England (within ten yai'ds of where a lahorei' was working), is remarka- hle for the very j-eason that '' no thunder, lightning, or luminous meteor accompanied the fall; but in adjacent vilhigcs there was heaid an )losion. likened by the inhabitants to the fii'ing of _i:uns afa]- off. \\hile in two of them the sounds were so distinct, — of something singular ])assing through the air towards Wold Cottage.—that several people went to see if anything had \\\x\)- pened to the house or ; A cai'eful com])arison of the Agram Iron* Meteorite, with that of Mazapil, brings to light a most similarity of detail, though thie Agram iron weighed nearly 70 German '"Pfunds" (39,200 grains) or seven times more. The surface hollowings and the general irregular flat shaj^e shoAv the same occult cause in the origin of both of these masses of celestial iron. 'I'he Mazapil ii'on in its size (3,864 grammes=10 11)S. 4^ oz. 1 roy), is rearly like the irons of Rowton (7f lbs.), Nedagolla, (11 lbs.), Charlotte (9^ lbs.), and Victoria-West (6 lbs. 6 oz.), which were all seen to fall. Fig. Widmanstatten figures on Mazapil Meteoric-iron. Natural size. * See Beitrage zur Geschichte und Kenntniss Meteorischer Stein uud Metall-massen, Dr. (^avl von Schreibers, Wien, 1820, Tab. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the ori
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