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obviously a freshly broken piece from a larger mass, the crust on the 

 flat surface (lower side in fig. 1) being very thin, not nearly equal to 

 that on the rounded surface. There is no fluting or grooving to indi- 

 cate the orientation during flight, but the smoothness of the rounded 

 point (upper left in fig. 1) suggests at least that this formed the nose 

 or breast of the stone in its passage through the air. The proximity of 

 this locality to that of the Hendersonville meteorite recently described 

 by the writer '" might at first suggest that it represented a part of the 

 same fall. The testimony of eyewitnesses to the phenomenon and the 

 freshness of the sample as compared with the last named, however, 

 preclude any such conclusion. The close similarity of the stone to 

 that of Bath Furnace, Kentucky, as described by Ward ^' is also worthy 

 of note, although there is an interval of over six months between the 

 dates of fall. 



The black crust is dull, and somewhat rough. On the recently 

 broken, flat surface, where the crust is thinnest, and on the rounded sur- 

 face the metallic iron particles project, seemingly having resisted the 

 frictional heat of the atmosphere more than did the silicate portions. 

 This is shown plainly in tig. 2 of Plate XVI. A cut surface shows a 

 gray, compact, indistinctly chondritic structui-e, with gray and more 

 rarely white "kugels" and an about medium scattering of metallic 

 iron and troilite. The texture is coarser, less compact, and in color a 

 lighter gray than that of the Hendersonville stone, but closely like 

 that of Bath Furnace. The stone is traversed by numerous fine, 

 thread-like, black veins, often branched, and without common orienta- 

 tion. Although sought for with care, no certain indication of move- 

 ment along these lines could be discovered. Indeed, the evidence was 

 almost wholly to the contrary, the veins sometimes passing directly 

 through the chondrules without evident relative displacement of the 

 portions thus separated. 



Under the microscope the structure is somewhat obscure, the chon- 

 drules being often fragmental and not strongly differentiated from 

 the fine, pulverulent ground. Olivine and enstatite, the latter pre- 

 vailing, with an occasional monoclinic pyroxene, are the principal sili- 

 cate constituents, the first named in chondrules of the polysomatic and 

 barred type, and in scattered granules; the enstatite in crj^ptocrys- 

 talline radiate forms, granules, and occasional relatively large, almost 

 colorless and clear plates. Interspersed with these are minute color- 

 less areas, showing no crystalline outlines, cleavage, or other evidences 

 of crystal structure, little relief and polarizing only in light and dark 

 colors. These areas are at times so abundant as to form the base in 

 which the other constituents are embedded. They are evidently com- 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, 1907, pp. 79-82. 

 ''Proc. Rochester Acad, of Sci., IV, 1905, p. 192. 



