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er end, the finder (Mr. Speaks) placed his foot to rest, while 
abroad on a hunting excursion. Its unusual appearance attracted. 
his attention, and led him to remove it to his house as something 
valuable. The mass was found remote from any settlement, in 
an uncultivated and rather unfrequented region. Its weight was 
one hundred and sixty-five pounds.” 
This iron does not afford by etching, the Widmannstattian fig- 
ures; although it exhibits glistening freckles, or angular spots of 
the size of fine-grained gunpowder, which are occasionally in- 
termingled with shining lines and fibres. Sp. gr.=7-265. 
It consists of iron 99°89, with traces of calcium, magnesium 
and aluminium, in the order, as to quantity, in which they are 
enumerated,—the calcium being most abundant 
2. Scriba, (Oswego,) N. Y.—My description of this mass was 
published in Vol. xl, p. 366, (1841.) ‘To that account may now 
be added the statement of Mr. John G. Pendergast, communicated 
to me in a letter dated July 15, 1846. “I saw a mass of iron at 
Oswego in 1834, in the possession of Mr. Rathbun, (a black- 
smith,) which I judged to be meteoric. Mr. R. had obtained it 
on that day from his collier, who had been down to deliver a load 
of charcoal, and stated that he found it in the woods, some where 
in the vicinity of his coal-pit. The circumstance of its being 
found in the forest, together with its size and form, induced me 
at the time to believe it to be meteoric iron. The mass in all 
probability, was originally globular in form, but from having been 
highly ignited, and striking the earth (perhaps on a stone) with 
great force, a flattening in its shape was produced, like that which — 
would be occasioned in a round lump of putty, if thrown against 
aboard. I was fully satisfied that the form it possessed, could 
+ ay 
it among undoubted meteoric irons. Its resemblance however, to 
the Walker county, Ala., iron, not only in composition, but in the 
generally smooth surface and black color of its crust, and still 
more, in the freckled figures developed upon 1ts polished sections 
ogy of the most marked kind 
between the two bodies. And as it seems unreasonable to ascribe 
the large drop-shaped mass of Alabama, either to a terrestrial or 
an artificial source, I feel authorized in claiming a meteoric origin 
for them both. 
