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Report on Meteorites. 



Art. X. — Report on Meteorites ; by Charles Upham Shepard, 

 M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of South 



Carolina, and in Amherst College, Mass. 





(Continued from Vol. ii, ii Ser., p. 392.) 



CLASS II. Metallic. 



Order First. Malleable, homogeneous. 



Section 1st. Pure. 



1. Walker county, Alabama. — This mass was described by 

 Dr. Troost in Vol. xlix, p. 344, ( 1845. ) Through the assistance of 

 Dr. I. F. Sowell, of Athens, Ala., I am able to supply a few addi- 

 tional details, concerning the occurrence of this unusually inter- 

 esting specimen. Dr. Sowell observes, that "the existence of 

 this iron was made known to me in 1839 or ? 40 ; and I was in 



treaty for it during two or three years, before being able to obtain 



possession of it. The original mass was irregularly oval, resem 



bling the figure here sketched. 



Fig. 6. 



" It was without any abrupt prominences or depressions, and 

 was covered by a smooth, black crust. It was found with the 1^' 

 ger end buried in the ground, leaving a portion of the smaller ex- 

 tremity projecting above the soil, — suggesting the idea, that it w& 

 driven into the ground by the force of its fall. Upon this small- 



