B.C. 654, a shower of stone fell on the Alban Mount (Livy.)

B.C. 467, a great stone fell at Aegospotami, on the Hellespont (Parian Chronicle). Pliny says it was about the size of a wagon.

A.D. 1492, November 7, a ponderous stone, weighing 250 pounds, fell from the sky near the town of Ensisheim, in Upper Alsace. A part of it is still preserved in the parish church. The Emperor Maximilian witnessed the fall of this meteor, and had the stone placed in the church to prove that "God insisted on a crusade against the Turks."

A.D. 1510, there was a great fall of meteors in Lombardy, some sixty pounds in weight, and some as much as 120 pounds. They were of a rusty color.

A.D. 1627, November 27, a stone weighing fifty-nine pounds fell on Mount Vassier, in Provence. This is attested by Gassendi.

A.D. 1751, May 26. Two masses fell at Agram, in Sclavonia, one weighing sixteen pounds and the other seventy-one pounds. The analysis of these stones by Klaproth is preserved in the Vienna museum (ninety-five parts are iron, three nickel).

A.D. 1803, April 26. A shower of stones fell near L'Aigle. M. Biot was deputed by the French Government to repair to the spot and report on the phenomenon. Between two thousand and three thousand stones had fallen, the largest being seventeen pounds in weight.

A.D. 1807, March 13. A stone fell at Smolensk, in Russia, weighing 160 pounds. It was black and shiny.

A.D. 1813, September 10. A stone weighing seventeen pounds fell in the county of Limerick, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

A.D. 1815, February 15. A stone weighing twenty-five pounds fell in the town of Dooralla, in British India. The Indians consecrated it in a temple, and approach it with reverence and clasped hands.

A.D. 1822, June 2, Sunday, 3 o'clock p. M. An aerolith fell, at Gis-lingham. Suffolk. It made a deep hole in the earth and then bounded off and burst. It fell with a tremendous noise, like crashing thunder.

In the Imperial Museum of St. Petersburg is an immense mass. The fall was witnessed by Pallas in Siberia.

The largest aerolith known is one which fell in Brazil. It is estimated to weigh about thirty tons.

A.D. 1887. An aerolith fell near St. Joseph, in the West Indies. It weighs two tons and buried itself in the earth between fifteen and eighteen feet.