Mr. Greville, conceiving that the experiments and observations made by Mr. Howard on certain metalline substances said to have fallen on the earth, and the accurate descriptions which Count de Bournon has given of these substances, have established the fact that a number of stones, asserted to have fallen under similar circumstances, have precisely the same character, is here pleased to communicate to the Society three more instances of such singular productions of nature, which have of late been noticed in France. The first is a specimen broken from a stone of about 15 inches diameter, preserved in the Museum of Bourdeaux, and which is said to have fallen near Roqueford, in the Landes, on the 20th of August, 1789, during the explosion of a meteor. It broke through the roof of a cottage, and killed a herdsman and some cattle.
Native Iron Nodules in Basites - Xenoliths of the Earth Core
