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an ash colored earthy matter. This last was undoubtedly de- 

 rived from the circumstance, that the mass was for a considerable 

 time employed as a support for fuel in the fireplace of a farmer's 



kitchen. Unon the under sidp.. therp. " . . . 



adheres 



Fig. 9. 



a crust of an earthy, black amygdaloid, scarcely distinguishable, 

 unless freshly broken, from the iron itself; and in one spot 

 nearly buried within the substance of the iron, a few grains of a 

 dull, yellowish, gray olivine were noticed, similar to those found 

 in the Bitburg iron. Near the surface, and especially upon the 

 thinner edge and at the small extremity of the mass, its structure 

 j s e nunently vesicular, the cavities being from one-fonrth to one- 

 twentieth of an inch in diameter, sometimes distinct, at others 

 running together, and generally lined with a black powder. But 

 as the distance increases to an inch from the surface, the cavities 

 grow smaller and more remote from one another. No deeper 

 section than one inch has yet been made in the mass : it is there- 

 of possible, that the central portions may be nearly compact. 

 JS ^ fra cture has a color and lustre, intermediate between 



Etched surfaces, excepting 



steel and 

 wher 



magnetic iron-pyrites. 



nere the structure is highly vesicular, 



V 1(1 mannStattian fimiroo ^Ancictinn nf 



exhibit the most delicate 



stattian figures, consisting of very minute and thickly 



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