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Literature — Am. Jr. Sc, 1st xxxvi, p. 81; Clark, p. 55; Rep. Am. M., 

 1848, p. 24; Bucliner, p. 163; Partsch, p. 116; Jaliresber, 1847-48, p. 1309; 

 Huntington, p. 60; Smithsonian Report, p. 261 ; Min. and Min. Loc, p. 14. 



Present Possessors — Amherst, 276 grams; Gottingen, 1.50; Shep. Cab. in 

 National Museum, 2.95; London, 114.9; Vienna, 271; Berlin, 13.66; Paris 

 (Nat. Hist.), 72; and in private collections: Gregory, 2; Siemascho (St. 

 Petersburg), 



4. 



Black Mountain Meteorite. 



Locality — Black Mountain, Buncombe county. Analyst — Shepard. 



The Black Mountain meteorite was found at the head of the 

 Swannanoa River, near the base of Black Mountain, towards the 

 eastern side of Buncombe county. It was given by Dr. Hardy 

 to Colonel Nicholson, of South Carolina. By the latter it was 

 given to Dr. Barratt, of the same State, and from him it was 

 secured by Dr. Shepard. It seems to have been picked up about 

 1839. The fragment weighed twenty-one ounces, and was evi- 

 dently a portion of a larger niass. Its texture was highly crys- 

 talline, having all the laminae (which were usually thick) 

 arranged conformably to the octahedral faces of a single indi- 

 vidual. There w^as evidence of the existence of very minute 

 veins of magnetic iron pyrites. The mass contained several 

 rounded and irregular nodules of graphitic matter, with which 

 again were found large pieces of iron pyrites. 



Specific gravity, 7.261. 



Iron 96.04 



Nickel 2.52 



Cobalt traces. 



Insoluble matter, sulphur and loss.. 1.44 



100.00 



Literature — Am. Jr. Sc, 2d Ser. iv, p. 82; Rep. Am. M , p. 28; Jahresber, 

 1847-'48, p. 1310; Buchner, p. 180; Clark, p. 34 ; Huntington, p. 56; Kerr 

 Appendix, p. 56; Min. and Min. Loc, {). 14. 



Present Possessors — Amherst, 243 grams; Yale, 15; London, 71.5; Vienna, 

 45; Paris (Nat. Hist.), 5; Dorpat, 19; Neville (now Calcutta), 29; and in 

 private collections: Baumhauer, 44 ; Siemascho. 



