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two or thre< rods around the breach.
This fell about twenty rods from tin
house oi Mr. Elijah Seelv, three and a
halt miles north east from vny house.
Another pie< e, four miles from the one
last mentioned, was taken out of the
giound nearly entire, in the court yard
oi Mr. William Prince, only 27'feet
bom his house. It penetrated into the
eaith a little nio;e than two feet, in a
peipendicular direction,—driving the
yiass and sod before it to the bottom of
the hole. i he place where it fell was a
liaid Hodden grass-plat, and smoo h as
a carpet. lliis stone weighed thirty
live pounds ; the largest piece ol which,
now unbroken, is in my possession, and
weighs eleven pounds. The noise oc
* asioned by the hill of this stone, was
heard soon after the explosion, by all
Mr. Prince’s family, and also by Mr.
Hubbell, a man of un louhted veracitv,
who happened to le passing not more
2o rods distant at the moment of
Us fall. i :;e third piece was much less
fii -a the two former, and fell five mil s
.rom the last, and nine from the first
Tnentiom d place, upon the top of a rock
projecd.ig uvo feet above the surface ol
the gro .d, and about twenty varus
from in- nouse of Air. JVIerwin Burr,
and dashed into small fragments, none
of which n eighed more than four or five
v/uncts ; me wnoic together would per
h:ips h ive weighed about ten pour ds.
.Three other pieces were heard by Mr.
.iur and ids wile to i .ill i;i a s.ramp‘a
htuj distance from the house ; but the
sv. nip being full of water, they have
not Oecn toimd. i\lr. Burr and his wife
^cing called to the doorhv the light and
•xpiosion that had just preceded the fall
id these stones, heard them distinctly
strike, particularly the one whit h tell
'•pon th • rock and was only thirtv yards
s from th m, as it made rjirt • a loud re
port. idr. Burr went out lirst with a
can flic to . *e what had fallen ; but the
ston. s so broken and scattered he did
not a;.rover it. When it grew a little
Tig... , and before sin -rise, he looked
agii:: .md innvit iiat- ly »< und the pieces
and die pi ,ec wlim*' it fell.
1 n..\ e viewed, in company with Mr.
Kelly arid Dr. lligbv, all these places,
acd taken s mplcs ol the stone iron
each ; ail which have precisely the same
appearance, ni.d are about on -fourth
or o e-third heavier than the common
gianilhign.y impregnated with iron.
Th>« ph .nonunion, strung as it mav
appear, is as firmly established bv the
most uudeniable evidence, as any fact
can be, which is cogn-zable by our
senses.
You will be so good as to excuse the
trouble of so long a letter on this novel
subject.
Most sincerely yours,
J. Bronson.
Earthquake.—On the evening of the
11th Sept, was felt at Neuweid and its
environs, a strong shock of an earth
quake, accompanied with some very re
mark aide circumstances. The noise
which was heard at the moment of the
[ commotion, resembled the rattling of
carriages proceeding with great vclocitv.
l'he fishermen on the Rhine saw a num
b r of fish thrown out of the water. The
wind suddenly ceased, the sky became
suddenly thick with clouds. Towards
midnight a shock again occurred,which
was followed by a third about three
o’clock in the morning. No lives were
lost by the event.
Sources of affliction We see men af
flicted with innumerable diseases,which
proceed not from accident, but are con
ST-nial with their original formation_
I lie stone grows in the bladder under
the same direction as in the quarry ;
ami tire seeds of scurvy, rheumatism
and gout, are sown in the blood, as ve
getables arc scattered over the face of
the earth. From these various instru
ments of torture, numberless are the
miseries which mankind endure. Nor
are those, perhaps, less numerous, tho’
less visible, which they suffer from that
treachery, injustice, ingratitude, ill-hu
mour, and perverseness,w ith which thev
every hour torment one another, inter
• upt tlv’ peace of society, and embitter
the comforts of domestic life. To all
whi. h we may add, that wond- rod in
genuity which they possess, of i n uling
imaginary, i 1 tlv absente of real mis
fortunes ; and that corrosive quality in
tin human mind,which, for want oi pro
per food or business, or co t mpluion,
preys upon itself, and nitk<.s s .litu It
intolerable, and thinking a most painful
Gr.sr.RVAT on.—Some nnt'.ous are
remarksil le for the 1 unr fa.Turc of chi
on, fine silks, The Iiish have for
a lung time had the merit of Le • un
rivalled in the art oi making cuils, or
blundering in expressing their ideas_
So general has been the disposition to
acknowledge the pre-eminence of the
Irish in this point, that many bulls have
been published as the genuine products
of Irish manufactories, which have b< c ■
made by persons who never seen Ire
land-The English have been as for
ward as any others, in proclaiming this
quality of their Irish neighbours. But
they are not th.mselves without some
knowledge ot this art. A London pa
per of the 6th Sept, last, contains the
following sentence, relative to the at
tack made by the Leopard on the Che
sapeake : a sentence which contains as
complete a bull, perhaps, as any made
in Ireland within the same year.
“ The gunner of his majesty’s ship
Chichester, was found dead, acting in
that station , on board the Chesapeake.”
INTELLIGENCE.
From the Aurora.
Extract to the Editor.
'■'•Washington,Dec. 31, 1807.
“ Yesterday a message was received
from the President of the United States,
announcing the pleasing intelligence.,
that the Indians which had lor some
embodied t.round Detroit, had, after
holding several counc Is, determined to
return home to their respective nations.
At tluir last council, it was declared,
that the British had persuaded them to
take up arms against the United States,
and that they must dett rmine what
course they were to pursue, as they were
pressed to immediate war, and must
either engage immediately or return
home. The general sentiments of the
chiefs was, that the conduct of the Bri
tish gov. n m< nt of Canada, and the go
vernment of tlu United State s, point d
out the | ath which they were to follow.
The United States had greatly be nefit*
ted the Indian tribes, and treated them
as friends; they did not invite them to
v.ar, but endeavoured to teach ilurn all
that they themselves knew, 'l'hc Bri
tish on the o.lu rhand, had excited th m
to war, and did nothing for them at
he mo, but what was intended to emp/.oy
tlv tn in war.—'1 he British now wish
th. m to go to war w iln the United Scales;