Valentine looked in her textbook and read the reading aloud.

"During a heavy thunderstorm which ensued on
Monday, March 4, between 2:30 p.m. and 4.15 p.m., an aerolite
was observed to fall at Conleny Heath, near St. Albans. The
observed who has placed the specimen in my hands for examination,
stated that the stone fell within a few feet from where he was
standing, and that it entered the ground for a distance of about
3 feet. Its fall was accompanied by an unusually heavy clap
of thunder. The example weighs 5 pounds 14 1/2 ounces and measures
6 3/4 inches by 5-5/8 inches at its great length and breadth
respectively. The mass is irregularly ovate on the one side,
and broken in outline on the other. The actual surface throughout
is fairly deeply pitted, and under magnification exhibits the
usual chondritic structure of the crystalline matter with interspersed
particles of what appears to be nickeliferous iron."