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Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen From the Clouds, Both in These Days, and in Antient Times · Edward King — chapter 7 of 7 · ~206 words · public domain

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Lib. 1. Sec. 31.

Haud aliter quam quum grandinem venti glomeratam in terras agunt, crebri cecidere coelo lapides.

Lib. 30. Sec. 28.

Lib. 34. Sec. 45.

Psalm 18. v. 13.

Psalm 148. v. 8.

Psalm 147. v. 17.

Psalm 148. v. 8.

Joshua, ch. 10. v. 11.

Hooke's Experiments, p. 134.

Vide Gesner.--and Ans de Boot Hist. Lapidum.

For which translation I am obliged to Sir Charles Blagden.

This account, from Abbé Stutz, and the following from Dr. Chladni, I received, translated from the German, by the favour of Sir Charles Blagden.

Vide Cardan De Variet, lib. 14. c. 72.

An account of this stone is given by Dr. Halley in the Philosophical Trans. No. 341. And also there is an account of it by Montenari.

Essai de Physique, Tom. II. sect. 1557.

All these facts are to be found mentioned in Chladni's book; first at p. 8, and then from p. 34 to 37.

See the full account in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LI. for 1759, p. 218, &c.

This is according to the account sent by the Rev. Mr. Michell, Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, p. 223.

Ib. p. 237, 265, 269.

Ib. p. 265.

Ib. p. 272.

Psalm III. v. 2 and 4.

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