144 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [mAY 9, 



the Rowton, Nedagolla and Mazapil irons, but on a larger scale. 

 Some of them are thinner than a hair and yet twice as high 

 (like a high knife-edge), and they are from one to four inches 

 long. In one space of o'^™ twenty are arranged side by side, and 

 on one small part which is black, there are 50 lines in one inch 

 of space (25"""), all running in the same direction. Near all the 

 pointed edges the fused metal has flowed and cooled so as to 

 hang like falling water. The stride and marks of flowing are 

 around the edges of the upper surface. On the under side ])\t- 

 tings are very shallow but much broader, one depression, ap- 

 parently made up of four pittings, being 20'"" long and 9.5'^'^ 

 wide. The whole side is coated with a black crust, 1""" thick 

 and having minute round bead-like markings. On one of the 

 indentations of the lower edge the crust has a strikingly fused 

 appearance as if a flame had been blown on it from the other 

 side. In reality this edge is undoubtedly the place where a 

 greater amount of burning took place when the body was pass- 

 ing through the air. Seven small, bead-like lumps, from 5™"^ , 

 to 10™"" in size, which are visible on this side, are drops of metal 

 that were entirely melted and flowed and cooled so that they 

 resemble drops of a thick liquid. There are also to be seen 

 what appear to be cracks, 15 in number and nearly as thin as a 

 hair. One of these is 10'^™ long and extends from the highly 

 fused edge above-mentioned toward the centre. The others are 

 from 3"" to 5*^™ long. These are so evenly arranged that they 

 are without doubt "Reichenbach lamellen" in which the inner 

 troilite has been burnt out. If such is the case they are as 

 abundant as in the Staunton, Ya., meteoric iron. 



On the upper side ten nodules of troilite are exposed, mea- 

 suring from 33™"" in diameter to 55™ long and 25""" wide. On 

 the lower side there are 12 such nodules exposed, 13'"°' in diam- 

 eter, while the largest measures 19"'"" by 39'""'. On the upper 

 side these nodules are coated in spots with a black crust similar 

 to that found on the mass, but on the lower side the crust ex- 

 tends completely around the side of the nodules, showing the 

 fusion very plainly. The troilite is very bright and fresh, like 

 a newly broken mineral, and on the upper side one of the 

 nodules shows deep striation, suggesting that the entire nodulfr 



