326 Analysis of the Tennessee Meteorite. 



ble, lime or brick kilns, or fires for manufacturing purposes, between 

 pestilential places, and villages, or dwellings. 



I forbear to extend this article by making even the apology which 

 its length ab*eady demands ; and am, widi great respect. 



Your obedient servant, **** 



New York, Nov. 1829. 



Art. VI. — Tennessee Meteorite. 



The late Professor Bowen, of whom an obituary notice was in- 

 serted at the close of Vol. XVI. of this Journal, left the meteoric 

 stone, of which an analysis by Mr. Seybert is subjoined, with directions 

 that it should be forwarded to me. On its way to this place, it was 

 detained in Philadelphia, at my request, to undergo an analysis by 

 Mr. Seybert, a labor which that gentleman has been so kind as to 

 perform. Mr. Seybert's valuable analyses in Vols. IV. V. and VI. 

 of this work, interrupted by an absence of several years in Europe, 

 have added to our knowledge and our reputation ; and the friends 

 of science will be happy to see liim occupied again in a kind of in- 

 vestigation, which is peculiarly difficult, and for which few in any 

 country are adequately qualified. The meteorite of Tennessee has 

 not yet arrived here. Mr. Seybert's notice of its external and phys- 

 ical characters, is sufficient to shew its similarity to the meteorites 

 Ithat have fallen in other places. — B. S. 



New Haven, Dec. 6. 



Analysis of the Meteorite, which fell near Drake'' s Creek, eighteen 

 miles from JVashville, Tennessee, in the year 1827. 



This mineral consists of a friable granular mass, of a greyish color, 

 in which metallic particles are easily discernible to the naked eye. 

 It is coated externally, with a crust of a dark brown color, which 

 shows evident marks of fusion. It is highly magnetic, and its spe- 

 cific gravity, by two trials, was ascertained to be 3.484, and 3.487. 

 When thrown into muriatic acid, sulphuretted hydrogen is evolved. 

 By preliminary essays, its constituents appeared to be. Silica, Alu- 

 mina, Magnesia, Sulphur, Nickel, Chrome, and Iron. 



ANALYSIS. 



A. 3 grammes of the pulverized mineral were decomposed in the 

 usual way, by calcination with 2 parts of nitre, and 2 parts of pure 

 caustic potash ; the product communicated a pale green color to the 



