* Astronomy

Title: The Meteoric Stones of Baroti, Punjab, India, Wittelcrantz, South Africa.
Author: G. T. Prior

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the villagers at Baroti, a village in the Bilaspur (Simla) district, were at work about their fields when they were alarmed by a rushing noise overhead. Looking up they saw a meteor approaching them at a great velocity, accompanied by a cloud of light-coloured smoke. The meteorite struck the earth about four hundred yards from their village. On going to the spot they found that it had landed with great force on a sheet of ordinary dark sandstone rock, the face of which, at the point of impact, was broken up for a space of about two feet in diameter, and to a depth of more than an inch. The meteorite itself was broken in pieces on its contact with the rock. The villagers gathered up these fragments, some of which they took to the Rajah of Bilaspur, others they kept themselves, either as curiosities, or probably as objects of superstitious reverence.

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