and a Mass of jletevric Iron, found in JFestern India. 55 



11 round the bLorter axis, and weighed 4 pounds. One end ol' it 

 was somewhat flattened, as if it had, whilst in a soft state, come in 

 contact with some hard substance. Its whole surface was covered 

 with a blackish, vitrified-looking crust, about one-twentieth of an inch 

 in thickness, whilst the interior resembled a greyish-white soft sand- 

 stone, diffused through which were minute brilliant metallic particles, 

 about the size of small pin-heads. It crumbled readily under the 

 fingers ; and when reduced to powder, the metallic particles could all 

 be abstracted from it by a magnet. Its specific gravity was 3'512. 

 Hydrochloric and nitric acid acted violently upon it, with evolution 

 of sulphuretted hydrogen gas, and solution of the metallic particles. 

 Its analysis was conducted by digesting it with heat, in nitrohy- 

 drocliloric acid, leaving the insoluble earthy silicates : precipitating 

 the iron as peroxide by an excess of ammonia, which gave a pale 

 sapphire-blue solution : then evaporating to dryness, igniting to ex- 

 pel the ammonia salt : dissolving the residue in nitric acid, and pre- 

 cii itaiing the nickel as oxide by potash. Neither cobalt nor chro- 

 mium were detected by qualitative methods. After the action of 

 nitro-hydrochloric acid, sulphur floated on the liquid, and, moreover, 

 much sulphur was given off as sulphuretted hydrogen. 



COMPOSITION. 



Earthy silicates, 

 Sulphur, .... 

 Nickel, .... 



Iron, .... 



89-74: 

 Aerolites, from the Myhee Caunta. — On the 30th of November 

 1842, at 4 P.M., some Khoonbees were sowing grain between the vil- 

 lages of Jeetala and Mor Monree, in the Myhee Caunta, to the north- 

 east of the city of Ahmedabad, when they heard a noise or report 

 like the firing of heavy guns, four or five times ; this sound came 

 from the east, and was instantly followed by a violent gale of wind, 

 and the fall of a number of stones, — of these the Kiioonbees picked 



up one that fell on the edge of their field ; it weighed about .* 



When first taken up, it smelt strongly of gunpowder. The people 

 broke it to pieces, and kept them as curiosities. One of the frag- 

 ments having fallen into the hands of a Karkoon, he brought it to 

 Captain G. FuUjames, Commandant of the Goozerat Irregular Horse, 

 who transmitted a small portion of the stone to the Bombay Geo- 

 graphical Society. This fragment presented so exactly the appear- 

 ance of the foregoing aerolite from Dharwar, that it might have been 

 taken for a portion of it; presenting the same dark vitrified surface, 

 the greyish-white siliceous interior, with the brilliant metallic par- 

 ticles diffused through it. Its specific gravity was somewhat less 

 than that of the preceding aerolite, being 3-360. The portion which 

 was placed in my hands fbr analysis, was unfortunately too small to 



■* I'rofcsfor Giraud'b MS. leaves blank space in place of weight. —A'rfit. 



