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it had ceased : the projected experiment, however, was tried, and a pair of pistols 

 were made of it, which were afterwards sent as a present to the President of the 

 United States. The remainder of the mass brought down from the Chaco, after 

 some specimens were taken from it, was laid aside in the arsenal at Buenos Ayres 

 until it was given to me by the Government of that country on the occasion of my 

 having to carry into effect the recognition by Great Britain of its political independ- 

 ence. And this is the precise history of this iron. If you think there is anything 

 in it worth making known to the Royal Society, you are quite at liberty to copy or 

 extract this account of it. 



" Believe me to be, my dear Sir, 



" Very truly yours, 



•' Woodbine Parish." 



" To Chakles Konig, Esq., 

 British Museum." 



