14 Dr. Chaldni’s Catalogue of Meteoric Stones, 
* Several large and small masses in Mexico and in the Bay 
of Honduras. 
* A very large mass near Otumpa in the district of Santiago 
del Estero, in South America}. Another, on the left bank of 
the Rio de la Plata, is said to be still larger. 
* A very large mass, about fifty Portuguese miles from Bahia 
in Brazil; respecting which maybe seen, besides the authorities 
mentioned in my own work, the account of the Bavarian na- 
turalists Martius and Spix. 
A mass found near the Red River in America, and brought 
to New York. 
Two masses on the northern coast of Baffin’s Bay. 
A mass found near Bitburg, to the north of Treves, which 
has been probably smelted. (I have mentioned it in my book, 
p. 253, as doubtful, not knowing then, as I have since learned 
from the American Mineral ogical Journal, vol. i. p. 218, that 
after an analysis by Colonel Gibbs, it was found to contain 
nickel, and to be in every respect similar to the mass at New 
York.) + 
A mass discovered by Professor Horodecki of Wilna, near 
Rockicky, district of Mozyrz, in the government of Minsk, in 
which Laugier found nickel and a little cobalt.—Gilbert’s 
Annals, vol. lxiii. p. 32. § 
[Many masses of different sizes, discovered about the year 
1810, in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, in the eastern Cordillera 
of the Andes; and which probably belong to this division.— 
Edin. Phil. Journ. vol. xi. p. 120. 
Two masses discovered at Zipaquir4, in the same Cordillera. 
Ibid. p. 122.] . 
? It is possible that the isolated rock of forty feet high, near 
the source of the Yellow River, in Eastern Asia (according to 
Abel-Remusat’s account in the Journ. de Phys. May 1819) is 
of this description. The Moguls say that it fell down from 
heaven; and they call it Khadasoutsilao, i. e. rock of the pole. 
* The oldest fragment of meteoric iron, the antiquity of 
which can be historically proved, is probably the antique men- 
tioned in my work, p. 390, for which I am indebted to Pro- 
fessor Rosel of the Academy of the Fine Arts at Berlin, in 
whose presence it was dug up at Pompeii, near the temple of 
Jupiter, and the Goldsmith’s-street, in 1817. Its external 
texture even shows it to be meteoric; and being protoxidated 
from its having lain so long in the damp volcanic sand, 
it is no longer attracted by the magnet, but still acts on the 
+ See Phil. Mag. vol. Ixvi. p. 367.—Enrr. 
t Ibid. vol. Ixv. p. 401. 
-§ Ibid. p. 411. 
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