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A mass of iron from Lockport, New York ; found in 1818, described 

 in 1845. 



A specimen of the iron from Burlington, in the Otsego County, New 

 York, found in 1819. 



An Esquimaux knife and harpoon (from Davis's Straits, Lat. 76 12' 

 N., Long. 53) the iron of which is meteoric (mentioned in Capt. Ross's 

 voyage, 1819, and presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Ad- 

 miralty). 



Small portions of the iron from Guildford County, North Carolina, 

 discovered in 1820. 



A mass of iron from the province of Atacama, republic of Bolivia, 

 resembling that of Siberia, and, like it, containing much of an olivine- 

 like substance within its cells; described in 18^:7, and presented by Sir 

 Woodbine Parish. 



A mass from the N.E. corner of Walker County, Alabama, found 

 in 1832. 



A specimen of the iron which was seen to fall, July 31st, 1835, in 

 Dickson County, Tennessee. 



A portion of that of Ashville, Buncombe County, N. Carolina, found 

 and described in 1839. 



A ponderous piece of iron from Crosby's Creek, in the S. W. part of 

 Cocke County, Tennessee, found 1839 (with this is placed a mass of 

 graphite found in it, weighing 830 grains). 



A smaller piece from Greenville, Green Countv, Tennessee, found 

 in 1842. 



The greater part of the mass of iron found in the Sevier County, 

 Tennessee, in 1840. 



Three characteristic specimens, one containing much graphite, of the 

 iron from Arva, in Hungary, discovered in 1843. 



A polished piece of the iron found in the Otsego County, New York, 

 in 1845. 



Mass of iron from Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, found 

 in the same year. 



A considerable portion of the mass of iron, weighing 280 pouncs, 

 found in the same year at Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee ; as was 

 that of Hommoney Creek, near the base of Pisgah Mountain, Buncombe 

 County, North Carolina. 



A portion of the iron ploughed up about seven miles from Chester- 

 ville, Chester County, S. Carolina, described 1849. 



Another of that which was seen to fall at Braunau, in Bohemia, July 

 14th, 1847. 



A portion of that found in the same year near Lake Lsesgen, in Bran- 

 denburg. 



Also, the greater portion of the mass discovered at the close of the same 

 year near Murfreesboro', Rutherford County, Tennessee. 



Of Meteoric stones, or Meteorites, (classed with native iron, 

 because they all contain this metal, generally alloyed with 

 nickel,) the following are placed in chronological order : 



CASE 1*. A large fragment of the stone which fell at Ensisheim, in 



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