SECTION III, 1886. O7] Trans. Roy. Soc. CANADA. 
X.—A Meteorite from the Northwest. 
By A. P. Coteman, Ph. D, Victoria University, Cobourg. 
(Presented May 27, 1886.) 
Some seventeen years ago, Mr. David McDougall, at the instance of his father, the 
Rev. George McDougall, brought in, by Red River cart, a mass of meteoric iron, weighing 
about 386 lbs. It was found on a hill near Iron Creek, a tributary of Battle River, at a 
point about 150 miles south of Victoria, on the North Saskatchewan. It was sent to 
Winnipeg, and afterwards to the Mission Rooms in Toronto, and now forms the chief 
ornament of the Museum of Victoria University. 
This meteorite was greatly venerated by the Indians, who made offerings to it of 
beads, trinkets or knives before setting out on hunting or warlike expeditions. The 
Indians saw in the markings of its surface the rough features of a face, believed that the 
“stone” attracted lightning, and that it had grown in size and weight since they first 
saw it. 
In outline, this meteorite is irregularly triangular and much broader than it is 
thick. Its surface shows the usual rounded and pitted appearance. It consists of solid 
metal, with scarcely a trace of stony matter, and only a slight oxidation of the surface. 
The specific gravity of the metal is 7.784. An analysis gives the following results :— 

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Nickel Re ren eee nsosttate siete store Palnssve: isis cele wihule-aie/erei ojersenate SSB! ioe 
(Golarlnasan cbsmvogaua CoC UMOUOUN OOD Een OTD nee ne ea lieelalielie cdelote a ele 0.49 “ SE 
MOTTE nn rentes lien lei e 100.65 
Sec. IIL, 1886. 13. 
