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Sub-section, coarsely crystalline. 



1 De Kalb county, Tennessee. — Vol. xlix, p. 341, (1845.) 



10. Asheville, (Baird's plantation, near French Broad River, 



miles north of Asheville, ) Buncombe county, North Carolina. 



•Vol. xxxvi, p. 81, (1839,) and Die Meteoriten. von P. Partsch, 

 Wien, 1843, s. 116. 



As this county has of late afforded two other localities of mete- 

 oric iron, I have taken pains to ascertain as nearly as possible the 

 exact position of each. The Hon. T. J. Clingman informs me, 

 that this locality is six miles north of Asheville, on the estate of 

 Col. Baird, who is of opinion that other fragments may there be 

 found, as he has within two years observed small pieces of rusty 

 iron in the same field from which Dr. Hardy's mass was obtained. 



Farther experiments on the composition of this iron, enable me 

 to add to what was before made known, that it contains cobalt, 

 magnesium and phosphorus ; and that the nickel is sometimes 

 present in a ratio as high as 5 p. c, while the silicon is consider- 

 ably below 0*5 p. c, as formerly quoted. 



11. Guildford county, North Carolina. — Vol. xl,p. 369, (1841,) 

 and Die Meteoriten, von P. Partsch, s. 114. 



12. Carthage, Tennessee. — Vol, ii, ii Ser., p. 356, (1846.) 



13. Jackson county, Tennessee. — Vol. ii, ii Ser., p. 357, (1846.) 



Order Second. Malleable, heterogeneous. 



Section 1st. Amygdaloidal.* 



14. Hommoney Creek, near base of Pisgah Mountain, (ten 



of Asheville, ) Buncombe county, North 



Clingman 



perseverance 



am indebted also for the possession of so interesting an object. 

 He informprl mo i™ tv/To^v. ~\QA(\ that whilft in the adioinine 



March 



county of Haywood, he had accidentally been told by a Mr. Clarke, 

 that his son had a mass of ore, five or six pounds in weight, that 

 was very black and heavy, and which they could not break with 

 a sledge-hammer, though they were able to indent its surface. 

 Mr. C. was disappointed, on visiting the son, to find the piece 

 ha a been mislaid and probably lost. His description howev- 

 er, agreed closely with that given by the father. He learned 



- -o*~--"-i wusciy vviiu iiicii given uy m^ «**»*«». — - 



also from the young man, that the mass had the appearance of 



The present mass having been discovered since the cla ification of the previous 

 or?!\ r %v »* made, it becomes nece iry to create a new section for the reception 

 "' l "is remarkable variety. In some respects, it resembles the amygdalo-pendotic 

 P e 'ies from Siberia and Atacama. It differs however, from them both, tn the 

 "•°fe diminutive cavities, and still more in this, that these cavities are almost 

 Jletely empty The le|>m amygda ] jdal therefore, is here applied, m analogy 



n >to use ia geology, for describing the vesicular traps. 



