7? TEANSACTIONS OF THE [jAN. 17^ 



In the autumn of 1883, another mass was found on the altar 

 of mound No. 4 of this same group, which weighed 767.5 grams 

 (27J oz.). Dr. Kennicutt suggests that these were all parts of 

 some larger meteoric mass. The results of the investigation 

 were published in connection with the description of the Ata- 

 cama meteorites, because in structure they approached more 

 closely to the latter than to those of any other occurrence. In 

 the Liberty group of mounds in the same valley. Professor Put- 

 nam found a celt five inches long, and in another of the Turner 

 mounds, an ornament five inches long and three inches wide,^ 

 made also of this same meteoric iron. 



It was not until after the above masses had been found that 



Fig. 1.— Earring made of Meteoric Iron. 



the Carroll County meteorite was brought to my notice ; after 

 a careful comparison, I have reached the conclusion that the 

 irons from the Ohio mounds and the Carroll County meteorite 

 probably belong to one and the same meteoric fall. Either the 

 former was broken from the main mass by the mound-builders 

 themselves, or they were all fragments of the same fall, scat- 

 tered as were the Estherville meteorites, or, as suggested by 

 Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, were those of Coahuila, and also, by 

 Huntington,' the Sevier, Cocke County, and Jenny's Creek 

 irons. 



1 Am. Jour. Sci., III., xxxiii., p. 115. 



