160 J. Lawrence Smith on Meteorites. 
3. Meteoric Iron from Coahuila, Mexico. 
This meteorite was brought to this country by Lieut. Gouch, 
of the U.S. Army, he having obtained it at Saltillo. It was 
counts were given of the precise locality, but none seemed very 
satisfactory. When first seen by Lieut. Gouch, it was used as 
an anvil, and had been originally intended for the Society of Ge- 
ography and Statistics in the city of Mexico. It is stated that 
where this mass was found, there are many others of enormous 
size ; these stones, however, it is well known, are to be received 
with many allowances. Mr. Weidner, of the mines of F'reiberg, 
States that near the southwestern edge of the Balson de Mapimi, 
on the route to the mines of Parral, there is a meteorite near the 
road of not less than a ton weight. Lieut. Gouch also states 
that the intelligent but almost unknown Dr. Berlandier, writes in 
his journal of the commission of limits, that at the Hacienda of 
Venagas there was (1827) a piece of iron that would make a cyl- 
inder one yard in length with a diameter of ten inches. It was 
said to have been brought from the mountains near the Hacienda. 
It presented no crystalline structure, and was quite ductile. 
meteoric mass in question, which is at the Smithsonian 
Institution, is of the form represented in the figure, and one well 
