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was cut from the Kiowa County material, however, there ap- 

 peared no doubt as to the identity of this fall with that from 

 which the earrings were made that were found in the mound. 

 In both the Kiowa County and the mound specimens the body 

 of the meteorite is iron, in which are embedded circular masses 

 or crystals of olivine. The fact that in connection with the 

 large Kiowa masses a number of small portions, weighing from 

 half a pound to six pounds each, were found, makes it very prob- 

 able that a small mass, of perhaps three or four pounds, had 

 been conveyed by the Indians to the Ohio valley. Probably the 

 two earrings in the collection of Mr. Warren K. Moorehead, re- 

 cently found by him at Fort Ancient, Ohio, may have been made 

 from a part of the mass weighing 767.5 grammes, which is now 

 in the Harvard University collection. 



I must here express my indebtedness to Prof. F. H. Snow for 

 information, and particularly to Prof. Robert Hay for aiding 

 me in procuring many of the meteorites and assisting greatly to 

 obtain exact data by visiting the place of discovery, and to secure 

 the illustrations ; as also to Mr. L. G. Eakins for making the 

 analyses, and to Prof. F. W. Clarke, of the IT. S. Geological 

 Survey, for his courtesy in having them made in the Survey 

 Laboratory. 



METEORIC IRON FROM BRIDGEWATER, BURKE COUNTY, NORTH 



CAROLINA. 



BY GEORGE F. KUNZ. 



The Bridgewater, Burke County, meteorite was found by a 

 negro ploughman, two miles from Bridgewater Station, latitude 

 35° 41', longitude 81° 45' W. of Greenwich, in the western part 

 of Burke County, near the McDowell County line, in North 

 Carolina. The negro thought, from its great weight, that it 

 must be either gold or silver, and took it to some railroad la- 

 borers, who broke it in two pieces, one of which weighs 10-j and 

 the other 18^ pounds, together 13.63 kilos = 30 pounds. The 

 iron measures 2:3.5x15x10 cm. (9x6x4 inches). (See Fig. 6.) 



Traces of black crust, very mucli oxidized, are still visible on 

 the surface. The iron is highly octahedral in structure, and 

 the mass was readily broken by the laborers who found it. Be- 

 tween the cleavage-plates schreibersite is visible. 



On etching a polished surface with dilute nitric acid, the 

 characteristic Widmanstiitten figures were shown (Fig. 7); the 

 iron belongs to the caillite group, and resembles in structure 

 those of Cabin Creek and Glorietta Mountain. The specific 

 gravity of a fragment was found to be 6.617. The following 



