456 Meteoric Stones. 
ancient kings. For the greater dispatch, they employed two 
different parties of the natives, from Longsor and from Karnack, 
The former were the most fortunate, discovering a tomb that 
had never been opened, aud where they found, on the third day, 
a mummy with five cases ; they asked for this 6000 piastres of 
Egypt (133/.), which was paid them. ‘The fellahs of Karnack, 
thus disappointed, and kaving had three days toil for nothing, 
had warm disputes with those of Lougsor ; and mischievous con- 
sequences might have ensued, as their villagers took a part in the 
quarrel, if the possessor of the mummy had not given 1000 pi- 
astres (221. ) extra to the Arabs of Karnack, to whom also some 
participation was made by those of Longsor. This mummy is 
the most superb and beautiful of all that have hitherto been dis- 
covered. To judge of it from the ornaments in relief, which 
decorate the cases, and especially one whereon gold has been la- 
vished, from the rich style of the amulets, from the largeness of 
the papyrus, and all the hieroglyphical embellishments about the 
body, it must have been that of some Egyptian king or prince. 
This conjecture is coroborated by the number of cases, as the 
mummies of the greatest persons in general have only three. 
METEORIC STONES. 
M. Fleurian de Bellevue, in a paper read last year before the 
Academy of Sciences, on meteoric stones, and particularly on 
those which fell near Jonzac, in the department of Charente, 
draws the following conclusions respecting these bodies : 
1. The appearances presented by the crust of meteorolites 
seem to prove that their surface has been fused whilst rapidly 
traversing the flame of the meteor, and rapidly solidified into a 
vitreous state on leaving that flame. 
2, They prove that in the first moments, the movement of 
the meteorolites was simple; that is, that they did not turn 
round on their own axis whilst those two effects took place. 
3. That the impulse each meteorolite has received has almost 
always been perpendicular to its largest face. 
4, That the largest face is almost always more or less convex. 
5. Our meteorolites (those of Jonzac) offer new proofs of the 
pre-existeuce of a solid nucleus to bolides or meteors. 
6. This nucleus could not contain the combustible matter 
which produces the inflammation of the meteor. 
7. It cannot have suffered fusion during the appearance of the 
phenomena. 
8. The gaseous matter which surrounds this nucleus is dissi- 
pated without producing any solid residuum. No trace of this 
matter appears ever to exist in the crust of the meteorolites. 
9. Meteorolites are fragments of those nuclei which have not 
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