This which fell in Cornwall was only about one inch and three quarters long; an inch, or in some parts an inch and a quarter broad; and between half an inch, and three quarters of an inch thick. And its weight was near an ounce.--How much more tremendous then were those others, that have been described as having fallen in France?--the accounts of some of them may very probably have been exaggerated: but the reality was nevertheless as wonderful, surely, as any thing related concerning the ages of antiquity. A proneness to credulity is ever blameable. And it is very possible, that sometimes, in a very wonderful narration, a jest may be intended to be palmed upon the world, instead of any elucidation of truth.--But facts, _positively affirmed_, should be hearkened to with patience: and, at least, so far recorded, as to give an opportunity of verifying whether similar events do afterwards happen; and of comparing such events one with another. To what has been said, therefore, concerning the fall of stones in Tuscany, and concerning these strange showers of hail, in France, and in England, it might perhaps too justly be deemed an unwarrantable omission, on this occasion, not to mention the very strange fact that is affirmed to have happened the last year, near _the Wold Cottage_ in Yorkshire. I leave the fact to rest on the support of the testimonies referred to in the printed paper, which is in so many persons' hands; and that is given to those who have the curiosity to examine the stone itself, now exhibiting in London;--and shall only relate the substance of the account shortly, as it is given to us. In the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1795, near the Wold Cottage, noises were heard in the air, by various persons, like the report of a pistol; or of guns at a distance at sea; though there was neither any thunder or lightning at the time:--two distinct concussions of the earth were said to be perceived:--and an hissing noise, was also affirmed to be heard by other persons, as of something passing through the air;--and a labouring man plainly saw (as we are told) that something was so passing; and beheld a stone, as it seemed, at last, (about ten yards, or thirty feet, distant from the ground) descending, and striking into the ground, which flew up all about him: and in falling, sparks of fire, seemed to fly from it. Afterwards he went to the place, in company with others; who had witnessed part of the phaenomena, and dug the stone up from the place, where it was buried about twenty-one inches deep. It smelt, (as it is said,) very strongly of sulphur, when it was dug up: and was even warm, and smoked:--it was found to be thirty inches in length, and twenty-eight and a half inches in breadth. And it weighed fifty-six pounds.