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nickel, cobalt and manganese was detected in the iron included in 

 the mass, and as the surface was scorified, indented, uneven, and 

 partially coated with a peculiar substance, the surmise as to the 

 meteoric nature of the imbedded material seemed to be rendered 

 much more probable. Again, in looking at the wood which imme- 

 diately surrounded that portion of the mass which remained, as it is 

 now, firmly inserted in the tree, a blackened substance was observed 

 to be interpolated between the supposed meteorite and the sur- 

 rounding sound wood. On the outside of this substance (which had 

 somewhat a charred aspect) we observed a true bark, which follows 

 the sinuosities of the wood wherever the latter appears to have been 

 influenced by the intrusion of the foreign mineral matter. [The spe- 

 cimen is represented in the annexed wood-cut.] 



Seeing thus enough to satisfy our conjecture, if sanctioned by 

 other evidence, I desired Mr. Poole to bring all the fragments of the 

 wood he had not destroyed which surrounded this body. On placing 

 the ends of some of these (also now exhibited) on the parts from 

 which they had been sawed off, they indicated that the space be- 

 tween the mineral substance and the surrounding sound wood 

 widened upwards ; the decayed wood passing into brown earthy 



