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7. 



Bridgewater Meteorite. 



Locality —Bridgewaler, Burke couniy. Analyst — Venahle. 



Tliis nictcoritc was dcj^crlbed by Kmi/. it was found by a 

 negro two miles from liridoewater Station, in the western part of 

 Burke eountv, near th(> McDoweil eountv line. It was broken 

 by some ial>oi'ers into two pieces, one weighing ten and a lialf 

 and the other eighteen and a half pounds. The original lump, 

 therefore, weiglied thirty pounds or 13.63 kilos. The iron 

 measures 22.5 x 15 x 10 cm. 



Traces of l)lack crust, very much oxidized, are still visible on 

 the surface. The iron is highly octahedral in structure Between 

 the cleavage plates schseibersite is visible. Widmanstfitten 

 figures gotten on etching. 



ANALYSIS. 



Iron 88.90 



Nickel 9.94 



Cobalt 76 



Phosphorus .35 



Chlorine 02 



99.97 



Literature— Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Jan., 1890; Mitchell Soc, Vol. vii, p. 



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8. 



Cabarrus Meteorite. 



Locality — Post Farm, Cabarrus county. Analyst — Shepard. 



The fall of this meteorite was described by J. H. Gibbon, 

 Esq., of the United State- Branch Mint at Charlotte. On 

 October 31, 1849, at 3 p. m., a sudden explosion, followed at 

 short intervals by two other reports, and by a ruml)ling in the 

 air to the east and south, was heard in Charlotte. Five days 

 later news was brought of the fall of a meteoric mass on the 

 farm of a Mr. Hiram Post in Cabarrus county, some twenty-five 

 miles distant. This stone weighed nineteen and a half pounds, 

 was bluish and gritty in appearance, of irregular form, eight 



