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and cosmic division according to the armor faces are present, as well as secondary incrustation of all degrees, crust 

 spattering, drift, lines of pittings, less frequently crackling of the front side, ridges of crust on the border line between 

 the front and back side, brown to reddish-brown thin crust or less frequently thick bark crust on the rear side. Now 

 and then a stone has reversed orientation. Neither globular nor brecciated formations are very distinctly marked, 

 and few individuals show either one or the other prominently. 



The accounts show that neither of the names which have been given this meteorite, Forest 

 City or Leland, accurately show the location of fall. Apparently, however, Forest City was 

 as near the point of fall as Leland, and as this name has gained vogue it may as well stand. 



The meteorite is distributed, many collections possessing numbers of the small individ- 

 uals. The 81-pound stone is in the American Museum of Natural History collection; the 66- 

 pound stone at Minneapolis. The Field Museum possesses about 700 individuals; New Haven 

 also has a large number. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1890: TORREY and BAEBOUR. Fall of meteorites in Iowa. Amer. Joum. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 39, pp. 521-522 



(Analysis). 



2. 1890: XEWTOX. Amer. Joum. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 39, p. 522. 



3. 1890: KUNZ. On five new American meteorites. 2. On the Winnebago County, Iowa, meteorite. Amer. Joum. 



Sci., 3d ser., vol. 40, pp. 318-320. (Analysis by Eakins.) 



4. 1891: TORREY and BARBOUR. The recorded meteorites of Iowa, with especial mention of the last or Winnebago 



County meteorite. Amer. Geol., vol. 8, pp. 67-72. 



5. 1893: NEWTON. Lines of structure in the Winnebago County meteorites and in other meteorites. Amer. Joum. 



Sci., 3d ser., vol. 45, pp. 152-153, and 355. 



6. 1895: BREZTKA. Wiener Sammlung, p. 259. 



FORSYTE. 



Monroe County, Georgia. 



Latitude 33 0' N., longitude 83 55' W. 



Stone. Veined white chondrite (Cwa), of Brezina; Luceite (type 37, subtype 2), of Meunier. 



Fell 3.30 p. m., May 8, 1829; described 1830. 



Weight, 16 kgs. (36 Ibs.). 



The first account of this meteorite was published among Miscellanies in the American 

 Journal of Science, as follows: 



Having recently received from Dr. Boykin specimens of the meteoric stone which fell in Forsyth, in Georgia, in 

 May, 1829, we are induced to republish an extract from an original statement of the facts, as it appeared in the news- 

 papers at the time. 



"Between 3 and 4 o'clock, on May 8, a small black cloud appeared south from Forsyth, from which two distinct 

 explosions were heard, following in immediate succession, succeeded by a tremendous rumbling or whizzing noise 

 passing through the air, which lasted, from the best account, from two to four minutes. This extraordinary noise 

 was on the same evening accounted for by Mr. Sparks and Captain Postian, who happened to be near some negroes 

 working in a field 1 mile south of this place, who discovered a large stone descending through the air, weighing, as was 

 afterwards ascertained, 36 pounds. The stone was, in the course of the evening, or very early the next morning, 

 recovered from the spot where it fell. It had penetrated the earth 2.5 feet. The outside wore the appearance as if it 

 had been in a furnace; it was covered about the thickness of a common knife blade with a black substance somewhat 

 like lava that had been melted. On breaking the stone, it had a strong sulphurous smell, and exhibited a metallic 

 substance resembling silver. The stone, however, when broken had a white appearance on the inside with veins. 

 By the application of steel, it would produce fire. The facts as related can be supported by many individuals who 

 heard the explosion and rumbling noise, and saw the stone. Elias Beall." 



The following notice, forwarded to the editor by Dr. Boykin, of Georgia, under date of June 2, 1830, corresponds 

 substantially with the above : 



"No one can tell from what direction the meteor came. The first thing noticed was the report, like that of a large 

 piece of ordnance; some say the principal explosion was succeeded by a number of lesser ones in quick succession; 

 similar to the explosions of a cracker; one has told me the secondary noise was only a reverberation. Very soon after 

 the explosion some black people heard a whizzing noise, and on looking saw a faint 'smoke' descend to the ground; 

 at which time they heard the noise produced by the fall of the stone. They ran to the spot, for they saw where it 

 fell, and discovered the hole it had made in the ground, being more than 2 feet in a hard clay soil. The negroes and 

 others who went early to the spot, say they perceived a sulphurous smell. The stone weighed 36 pounds; it fell at 

 a small angle with the horizon." 



Having received the specimens, just as this number of the journal is about being finished, I can add only the 

 following notice: The color of the interior of the stone is a light ash gray, and very uniform, except that it is sprinkled 



