1826.] M. Chladni's New Catalogue of Aerolites, 91 



At the Cape of Good Hope. Van Marum and De Dankeh- 

 mann. 



At Mexico, in different places. Son?ieschmidt, de Humboldt ; 

 see also the Gazette of Mexico, vols. 1 and 5. 



At Brazil, in the province of Bahia. Wollaston and Mornay, 



In the jurisdiction of Saint Ja2;o del Estero. Rubin de Cells. 



At Elbogen, in Bohemia. Gilbert's Ann. vols. 42 and 44. 



Near Lenarto, in Hungary. Gilbert's Ann, vol. 49. 



Near the Red River. The mass was sent from New Orleans 

 to New York. American Mineralogical Journal, vol. 1. Col, 

 Gibbs has analysed it, and found it contained nickel. 



(There are other similar masses in the same country, accord^ 

 ing to The Minerva of New York, 1824.) 



In the environs of Bitbourg, not far from Treves. (This 

 mass weighs 3300 pounds ; it contains nickel. The analysis 

 made by Col. Gibbs is in the American Miner alogicalJournal, 

 vol. 1.) 



Near Brahin, in Poland. (These masses, according to the 

 analysis of M. Laugier, contain nickel and a little cobalt.) In 

 the republic of Colombia, on the eastern Cordillera of the Andes. 

 Boussingault and Mariano de Rivero, Ann, de Chim, vol. 25. 



At some distance from the northern coast of Baffin's Bay, in 

 a place called So wiallik. There are two masses; one appears 

 solid, the other is stony, and mixed with pieces of iron, of which 

 the esquimaux make a sort of knife. Capt, Ross. 



? Perhaps we must place in this class a large mass nearly 40 

 feet high, found in the eastern part of Asia, not far from the 

 source of the Yellow River, and of which the Moguls, who call 

 it Khadasutsilao, that is to say, polar rock, say, it fell after a 

 fiery meteor. Abel R^musat. There exist masses of problema- 

 tical origin. Of this number are : — 



A mass at Aix-la-Chapelle, which contains arsenic. Gilbert's 

 Ann. vol. 48. 



A mass found in the Milanais. Gilbert's Ann. vol. 50. 



The mass found at Groskamsdorf, containing, according to 

 Klaproth, a little lead and copper. 



(It appears that they fused it, and that the pieces preserved at 

 Freyberg and Dresden are only fused steel, substituted for the 

 fragments of the primitive mass.) 



Falls of Dust and soft Substances, dry or moist. 



All that has been observed in these falls makes us presume 

 they do not differ materially from falls of stones. Sometimes 

 they have been accompanied by falls of stones, as well as by 

 fiery meteors. The dust appears to contain nearly the same 

 substances as the meteoric stones. There appears no other 

 difference but in the rapidity with which these heaps of chaotic 

 matter dispersed in the universe arrive in our atmosphere ; but, 



