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Historic Aerolites.
There is always a peculiar interest attaching to those
strange, rare bodies, aerolites, which, issuing out of the infin-
ite abyss of universal space, fall upon the earth with loud deton-
ations, accompanied by flashes or trails of brilliant light.
Legends and records more or less mythical have come down to
us from the earliest days, concerning the arrival of some of these
heavenly visitants; and they have been without exception objects
of veneration, awe, and even worship.
Some of them have played a part in history, and are still in
existence, weighted with striking associations, historical and
religious.
The historians Livy, Plutarch, and Pliny all describe them.
Diogenes of Apollonius mentions a "star of stone" that
"fell all on fire near Aegos Potamos. II The fall of the aerolite
made a great impression on the inhabitants of Thrace. It was said
to have been twice the size of an ordinary millstone and made a
whole wagon load by itself. This was about 465 B. C.
In Galatia, Cybele was worshipped in the form of a
"thunder-stone" which had fallen from the sky in Trepe.
At Emesis in Syria, a similar stone was set apart for
the worship of the sun. These two stones were subsequently trans-
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