[meteorite-list] Stat. Speaking / killer Hammers (Barbotan)

[JoshuaTreeMuseum]

 One of these stones, fifteen inches in diameter, broke
through the roof of a cottage, and killed a herdsman and a bullock. After
reading the above statement, we cannot refrain from wondering at the slow
belief of philosophers as to the heavenly origin of these stones. Where was 
the
body to come from, a body of the dimensions described, which was capable of
breaking through tho roof of a cottage, and committing such deadly havoc, if 
it
did not come from the atmosphere, ay, and from an immense height too ?"


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They probably thought it was launched from a catapault?

Phil Whitmer