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to the Hon. Judge Jacob Peck of Jefferson County, and to Mr. 
Estabrook, President of Knoxville College. 
' A fourth mass was found by Mr. Wiley Speaks in the north- 
east corner of Walker County, Alabama. It is also in my cab- 
inet, through the kindness of my friend, Dr I. F. Sowell of Ath- 
ens, Alabama, who purchased it for me of its discoverer. 
Meteorie Iron from Charlotte, Dickson County, Tenn. 
There is at present only one single instance where the fall of 
meteoric iron has been observed and properly authenticated. I 
allude to that of Agram, which fell on the 26th of May, 1751, 
about 6 o’clock in the afternoon, at Hraschina, a village near 
Agram in Croatia.* Most of this mass is in the Imperial Mineral 
Cabinet at Vienna, and it is not only remarkable for its authenti- 
eated fall, but also for its excellent preservation, its characteristic 
crust, and its well defined Widmannstattian figures, &c. All the 
other known masses of meteoric iron were accidentally discover- 
ed, and their meteoric origin is proved only by the characters 
which distinguish them from all terrestrial products. The state 
of Tennessee can now boast of possessing a second mass, (the 
fall of which was witnessed by several persons,) which is not in- 
ferior in any of the properties possessed by the Agram iron,} and 
which now forms one of the ornaments of my cabinet. 
A member of the legislature of the state of Tennessee from 
Charlotte, county seat of Dickson, (I do not remember his name, ) 
having seen my description of the Cocke County meteoric iron, 
mentioned to me some years ago, that a curious mass of some metal 
was in the possession of one of his constituents, which he thought 
might be of the same nature as that of Cocke County. He was 
not able to give me any other information, but becoming ac- 
* Von allen bekannten meteorischen eisenmassen ist die Agramer die einzige 
deren herabfallen sammt allen nebenamstanden beobachted worden ist, sie is so- 
wohl indieser hinsecht als durch ihre oberflache, die rinde von doppelter beschaf- 
fenhert, die vollkommenhert der widmannstattischen figaren U. 8S. W. die merk- 
wurdigste und kostbarste von allen in sammlungen aufbewahrten meteoreisenmasse. 
Paul Partsch.—Uber die Meteoriten oder von Himmel gefallenen steine und EHisen- 
msasen in K.K. Hof-Mineralien-Kabinette zu Wien. 1843, pag. 106. 
t There is a small specimen of the Agram iron in the cabinet of Yale College. 
Through the kindness of the late Baron Lederer it was obtained in exchange for 
American meteorites ; it has very decidedly the characteristic erystallization.— Eds. 
