_ the Iowa meteorite, “o> its line of junction with the m 
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tree. ‘That which I supposed to have been the outside of»the 
stone, had a dark brown color, and formed.a crust of the thick- 
ness.of coarsé’ wrapping. paper... It had evidently been exposed 
to intense heat. The injured side of the see was to the south- 
west, from which side I was informed that fragments of the 
stone were prance toa very great othe (three fourths of 
a mile 
6 Those who first visited the place differ greatly as to the weight 
of the stone, the estimates varying from fifty.to one hundred and 
fifty pounds : my own opinion is, that it must have weighed at 
least fifty pounds. The place not being far from the public road, 
the fragments were soon gaghered up by travellers, and have been 
dispersed very widely thro h the country. . It may be proper to 
add, that I am a native of this place, and that I never saw any 
other stone resembling the one Isend you, here or elsewhere ; and 
that. it is quite impossible* to account for the 4 injury to the tree, 
except on the supposition of its being produced bya stone falling 
from the atmosphere.’ 
The following communication. is from M. Frissell, Esq., of Po- 
tosi, Mo., dated March 12, 1842:—“'The meteor, of which the 
stone in my possession formed a Part, , passed i in a westerly direc- 
tion: It, must have been large, and [ presume that the main 
body passed on, the piece that fell hase formed but a small] me 
of the whole. ‘I did not witness the meteor. Some persons who 
did, compared it to a trumpet in shape, moving with the expand- 
ed end foremost. "The time of i its passage was between two and 
three o’clock, ». m. . Shortly after it had passed the meridian 
this place, it exploded with the noise of a heavy piece of ordna 
at two or three miles distance. I was in my office at the time. 
My first impression wag, that it was an earthquake. I was soon 
apprised however of what had passed: through the air, when I 
came convinced that the: report had proceeded from a meteor. 
The report was double ; like two cannons fired at nearly the same 
instant, the second: being louder than the first. The meteor must 
place. I expected that fragments 
this immediate vicinity, but the o 
Bluff, about eighty miles distant.” 
The crust to this stone has about 
one discovered was at Pine 
me thickness as 
: pea less perfectly defined. Its color is rather less black, and 
its surface less smooth and duller. Judging from. one specimen 
+ Mr. Frissell was so obliging as to _ me e the sper 
- Secon Sznies, Vol. VE, No: 18.— ne Ms 
imen here referred to. 
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