224 Notice of the Matleable fron of Lowsiana. 
. about N. latitude 32° 20’, and 20° W. longitude from 
upper streams of the Trinity in their expedition. That 
art of Mr. Melish’s map was constructed almost entirely 
rom my papers. When the manuscript Jent me by Dr. 
Sibley, * was i 1 my possession, | collated it as carefully as 
was in my power, with draughts of the country whic 
had previously coilected, and upon my map traced as 
nearly as possible the route which the party pursued. I 
cannot, it is se guarantee the accuracy of the delinea- 
tion; as I never was myself upon Red River above the 
limits of Lovisiadies but from the pains I took to arrive at 
correct results, | think that the es 6 ae may 
be depended upon with much confide 
eee by these directions eens a traveller might 
erience some difficulty in finding the masses now’ re- 
maining in that region : ee it will probably never be 
‘tes fr 
difficult to obtain gu mong the hh A min- 
eral substance. so reinmalig hie poe eral y i he 
attention, and often their veneration. T s of 
iron, tha they were visited en, we 
notoriet “ane it is b 
means probable that their notoriety has diminished since 
adventurers have manifested such earnestness to obta tain 
them. 
Some interesting remarks upon the native iron of Lonisia- 
by Col. Gibbs, are published in Brace’s Jone p- 2 rind 
with a cone ise account of similar masses from other e 
ana. 
easonable doubt that the huge masses of 
malleable iron ifrom Louisiana are of meteoric origin 5 and 
thus their history is rendered extremely interesting. All 
who have seen them in situ agree that they appear to 
been deposited in consequence of some extraordinary nat- 
ural occurrence, antl that it is impossible they should be 
the Sm of art. a — pogo of the vari- 
