. 
Report on Meteorites. All 
. 9. Richmond, ——— ¥ 
For an account of this stone see. Vols. xv, p. 196, xvi, 191, 
and Die Meteoriten von P. Partsch, s. 40, Wien, 1843. 
This small and highly eng stone appears to have been 
but imperfectly peers by the customary black crust. The 
natural outside of the fragments which I have examined, pos- 
sessed the usual preet hness of surface, but were but partially 
melted. Nor yee that myo perfect coating had 
ever been attached to the surface. ithin, the general — is 
a dark ash gray. -Intersperse sed through the mass, howeve 
freckles of a ‘whiti sh mineral, which are probably nawandise 
The gray portion consists of olivinoid, and ‘forms at least nine- 
tenths of the antag portion of the stone. 
10. Bishopsvill South Carolina. 
For my first naval of this, the most remarkable of all 
the hitherto described “meteorites of the United States, I am in- 
debted to Dr. J. ©. Haynswo' rth, of | Sumterville, South Caro- 
lina. His letter to, me; (dated April 7, 1846,) which is ce 
given, contains all the information respecting its fall ich 
I have thus far been able to obtain. “I have in possession 
a meteoric stone which fell in March, 1843, near Bishopsville, 
in the northern part of Stitnter District. The passage of the 
meteor and its explosion were witnessed by many spectators, over 
a region of country of thirty or forty miles in diameter. The 
descent of the stone itself also, was observed by a number 
negroes. Their terror ‘was so great on seeing the excavation 
produced, the scattering of the soil, and more than all, by the in 
supportable sulphurous odors with ‘which the air was ‘filled, that 
they fled in a panic from ‘the field, On the following morning, 
however, headed by a white man they returned to the spot; and 
after digging three feet or more, in a sandy soil, they came upon 
the stone which [ now possess. That it is meteoric is as well 
known as possible perhaps, in the absence of a scientific analysis. 
It has more the appearance of limestone than of any other rock 
with which I am acquainted, though it is much heavier than: 
ulk of limerock. It has, moreover, numerous part 
ibSlitig oxyd of iron, diffused through it. It is coat 
dark shining surface, resembling glass that has been : 
‘some metallic oxyd. When first dug u th ay 
to the interior, as portions of the vitreous ¢ ess of 
moved for specimens, by persons who hav e examined 
