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None but the ignorant and illiterate had ever seen a meteorite fall, said the wiseacres. And often they had reason to take such a position. Here is an example : A Hindoo saw a mete- orite fall in the jungles of India. There was 36 COMETS 37 the fresh hole it had made in the ground and there was the stone; but the man had been so frightened that when questioned about it he de- clared that the stone had pursued him for some time through the jungle before it fell to the ground. This led his questi...oners to doubt the whole story. No one now doubts what the common people asserted for thousands of years that stone and iron sometimes fall from the sky ; and this is not the only instance where the scientists are led and not followed by popular belief. A few examples will here be interesting. Since it has been accepted as a fact that mete- orites do sometimes fall, many records of the past, though long doubted, are now regarded as true. Livy, the Latin historian, informs us that about 654 B. C.
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