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must have fallen nearly from the zenith. This was the direction 

 of the end of its path, the earlier portion being more inclined to 

 the vertical, as the path must be affected by gravity and the re- 

 sistance of the air. The earlier direction must have been from 

 the N.E. and more nearly from the East than the North. 



This mass is almost an exact counterpart of the Hraschina 

 ( Agram), Croatia, iron, the first of the recorded falls. The Agram 

 iron fell in two fragments, one weighing about 40*^ and the other 

 about 9*^, the combined weight being about equal to that of the 

 Johnson County iron. 



The mass is in general quite fiat and very irregular, resem- 

 bling strongly a mass of molten metal thrown on the ground and 

 then pitted. The illustration of the Agram^ mass figured by 

 Yon Schreibers could be mistaken for the upper side of this, were 

 it not that this is larger. It measures 17-A- inches (44*^™) by 15|- 

 inches (39 "") while the Agram measures 15^ by 12 inches. A 

 high ridge, 5 inches high at the highest point (12.5'="'), runs 

 through the centre. One-half of the mass is not over 3 inches 

 (7.5'=™) thick, part of it is only 2 inches (5'="' ) , and around the 

 edge it is only one inch or less. It is only exceeded in size among 

 the irons seen to fall by the Nejed, Central Arabia, now in the 

 British Museum, which fell in the spring of 1865, and weighs 

 59.420 kilos. The weight is 107^ lbs. (48.75 kilos), and is in- 

 tact with the exception of three small points, weighing not more 

 than two ounces in all, which are broken oflF. 



The two sides are wholly dissimilar. In fact, one would 

 scarcely suppose that they belonged to the same mass. The 

 upper side is ridged and deeply dented, while the lower side is 

 flat and covered with shallow, but very large pittings. On top 

 the color is in many j^laces almost tin- white Avithout any coating 

 whatever, and the pittings are very deep and usually quite long, 

 like finger depressions, made in jiotter's clay. These depres- 

 sions measure from 2*='" to 4'=°' and from 1'='" to 4"™. This side is 

 remarkable for striae showing the flow and burning and all run- 

 ning from the centre toward the edge, identical with those in 



' " Beitrage zur Geschichte und Kenntniss Meteorischer Stein- und 

 Metallmassen," by Dr. Carl von Schreibers, Wien, 1820, folio, plate 

 viii. 



