HO History of the Malleable Iron of Louisiana. 



" John Maley travelled in these regions suhsequently to the removal 

 of the large mass, hut visited one or more smaller masses. " Crossing 

 the river," he says, " at the Pawnee village, we took a S.W. course 

 over large ledges of limestone and extensive prairies. After a journey of 

 three days, we were conducted by the Indians to this metal. It lay a 

 few miles from the mountain, which appeared to be the same that I have 

 before described as running parallel to the Red River." He does not 

 state whether he saw one piece or more ; but he afterwards stipulated 

 for the two pieces of metal. The Pawnee village, he says, is 1500 miles 

 above the confluence of the Red River with the Mississippi. 



Judge Johnson being in company with Mr. Maley some years since, 

 entered into conversation on this subject. He was informed by Maley, 

 that the pieces were found in the midst of an open sterile plain, lying- 

 over each other, and appearing as if broken and scattered in the fall of one 

 entire mass. " The place was described by Maley as about 200 (400 ?) 

 miles in breadth, north and west from Natchitoches, in (near?) the 

 ridge between the waters of the Red River and the Rio Bravo." 



"8* 



Mr. Bringier has mentioned, (SiHiman 1 s Journal, vol. iii. 

 p. 15.) apparently from personal observation, that the local- 

 ity of the metal is in West Long. 95° 10', and North Lat. 

 32° T. Mr. William Darby places it twenty degrees west of 

 Washington city, or in long. 97°, and in lat. 32 D 20'. As 

 this mass of iron contains nickel, like the other masses found 

 in the other parts of the globe, there can be no doubt that it 

 is of meteoric origin, and, consequently, every particular con- 

 nected with its history possesses the deepest interest. 



Art. XXV. — On the Existence of Silicious Solutions in 

 the I)rusy Cavities of Minerals. 



The same Number of Professor Silliman's Journal from 

 which we have abridged the preceding interesting article 

 contains another of not less importance to science. It is en- 

 tilled, Facts tending to illustrate the Formation of Crystals 

 in Geodes ; and we have no doubt that the two great and 

 new facts which it contains will for ever put to rest this long- 

 agitated question. 



In the few paragraphs and speculations which this paper 

 contains, the author mentions more than once the new fluids 

 discovered in minerals by Dr. Brewster ; but from some 



