Unprecedented phenomenon.
We have conversed with several gentlemen, of undoubted veracity, from the county of Ulster, in this state, who all agreed in the following very extraordinary relation:
That they have conversed with several credible persons from Marbletown, in that county, and they mentioned the names of persons well known to the editor of this paper; and these persons assert, and declare themselves ready to make oath, that the stones lying in two fields there, on several successive days, rose from the ground to the height of three and four feet, and moved along, slowly and horizontally, from thirty to sixty feet; and that a few of them even mounted over the tops of trees.
That the persons, who first beheld these astonishing performances, were disbelieved by the neighbourhood; but that all those, whocame to see if there was any truth in the accounts, are prepared to swear to them. The last performance was in an open field without wood or cover near it.
We understand that a gentleman from Kingston has taken means to have every circumstance accurately verified by affidavits; which will probably be laid before the public, in a week or two. – New York Courier.
The above facts have been substantially stated to the editor of the Argus, by gentlemen from Ulster, in whose veracity implicit confidence may be reposed. When relating the circumstances to a gentleman of this city, he stated that an occurrence equally marvellous and very similar, took place in the early settlement of Albany, at the corner of Market-st. and Mark-lane; and that the police established a guard to discover the cause, but without effect. – Albany Argus.
Niles’ Weekly Register, 4th November, 1815.