328 C.U. Shepard on New Localities of Meteoric Iron. 
perchloridized, gave with ammonia a precipitate which afforded 
distinct evidence of the presence of phosphorus and chromium: 
and the ammoniacal liquor was rich in nickel. 
The small quantity of the iron at my disposal prevented a 
fuller examination of its properties. It is much to be desired 
that the present notice may lead to the discovery of the original 
mass. 
3. Union county, Georgia. 
For my specimen of this iron also, and for my chief informa- 
tion respecting its discovery, I am indebted to Hon. T. L. Cling- 
man, as will appear from the following extract from his letter, 
dated Washington, Nov. 16, 1853. ‘“ Not long before I left home, 
I was at the copper mines of Ducktown, Polk county, Tennessee ; 
and while there, in looking over some specimens of Mr. 8S. Cong- 
den, I found this pre, and told him that I was satisfied it was 
meteoric iron. He had taken it to be merely a rich iron-ore, and 
informed me that some weeks previously, it had been brought to 
him by a person, who had picked up a large lump of it in his 
field, and who had broken off this piece with a view to having 
it tested. The discovery was made in the edge of Georgia, but 
in what county Mr. Congden could not learn.” 
have more recently ascertained from Mr. B. R. Dickey of 
Habersham county, Georgia, that the mass was found by a Mr. 
Freeman, in Union county of that state; and that its weight 
when picked up was about fifteen pounds. 
very coarse-grained colophonite garnet, or the coccolite variety of 
pyroxene. [It is, however, more or less traversed by cylindrical, 
2s not give the Widmannstattian figures; but ouly develops 
a series of web-like meshes, or, at most, a mottled, map-like de- 
lineation. we 
Its specific gravity =7-07. A fragment, as nearly as possible 
free from pyrites, was found to contain 3°32 p. c. of nickel. It 
is rich in chromium, and contains traces of phosphorus, 004" 
magnesium and calcium. : 
