358 A Sketch of the Geology of Tezas. 
be worked in the same state it was found in, showing me acold 
chisel made of it. I told him to examine the land and see 
whether an abundance of it really did exist, mentioning at the 
same time, that I was convinced that but a single, or at least 
very few pieces of it could be found, because it was meteoric 
iron, which, so far as is known, falls only in single masses. 
Colonel Player went to the spot-and then learned that only a 
single piece of it had been found. From this gentleman I learned 
that. the original piece was pretty large but that it had been cut up 
and worked in the blacksmith shop; that the only piece now ex- 
isting in its natural state, and which he had in his possession was 
of about 8 or 10 pounds; part of it, together with the cold chisel 
mentioned.above, is now in my possession. 
This piece weighs 43 pounds. » It is.a remarkable entetd has _ 
a fine granular feletnbes similar to that of steel, is very compact, 
and has no traces of crystals, or of a cicsit:illisigratnintiiate Itisa 
shapeless mass and has a rough surface, where it has not’ been 
cut—it has the properties of steel; in fact the above mentioned 
chisel is equal to one made of cast steel. An incomplete analysis 
has given me 10 per cent. of metal mostly nickel. It was found 
near Smithland,. me dae —— Sacre x BE 
_ Nashville, Aug. 17th, 1 ’ fi 
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Art. XXXII1.—A Sketch of the Geology of Texas ; by Dr. Fer 
- pinanD Rewer. (In a letter to the Editors dated New Braun- 
_ fels, German settlement on the Guadalou Pe, in Western idtenet 
~ Comal County, Jane 12, 1846. y- 
Shrestek the four months welibith I have already sail in Texats 
my time has been employed in the study of its geological rela- . 
tions: and although my knowledge of the country is yet incom 
plete and mostly confined to the western section of the territory, 
I may hope that the following sketch of what I have seen, con- 
sidering the little that is known, will prove of interest to ous 
readers, and afford a basis for further investigations. — 
It is not a very encouraging fact to the geologist i in Texas, 
_ that only there, where civilization ceases and the wilderness com 
pe the: geological relations of ‘the country begin to be inter- 
ed part of the country 
