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DR. E. A. SMITH'S DESCBIFTION OF A METEOEITE, 



to fallen stones; here therie was no material for glaze. The 

 charcoal is a remarkable accompaniment in the form in 

 which it occurs, and seems to throw much suspicion on 

 its origin ; but again, the mixture of charcoal with so much 

 oxide of iron and sulphur, combined with the circumstances 

 under which it was found, makes its production in the earth 

 below, almost as diflScult to explain as in the heaven above. 

 Mr. Staly says, that the pieces seen by him, and pioked up 

 at the moment of explosion, exactly resembled what he 

 himself obtained. 



