Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 221
Paris. Many ofthem weigh several million pounds. That representedbelow fell in Mexico during the shower of meteors ofNovember 27, 1885. It weighed about four pounds. These bolides and uranoliths come to us from thedepths of space; but they do not appear to have the sameorigin as the shooting stars.… … Fig. 58.—Raphaels Fire-Bail {^The Madonna of Foligno).202 THE COMETS of the most massive, in which iron predominates, mayeven have issued from the bowels of the Earth, projectedinto space by some volcanic explosion, at an epoch whenour globe was perpetually convulsed by cataclysms ofextraordinary…
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