222 Notice of the Malleable Iron of Louisiana. 
—but he subsequently speaks of proceeding south and west 
in going to the mass. ‘‘ The Indians informed me that 
they knew of two other smaller pieces, the one about 
thirty, the other fifty miles distant,”* [probably from the 
Pawnee village.] Capt.Glass gives no estimate of the 
whole distance from Natchitoches to the Pawnee village 5. 
but, from intermediate distances mentioned, he seems to 
have considered it about 400 miles. 
Dr. Sibley frequently conversed with Capt. Glass, and 
others of the parties which went in quest of this metal. 
He states the distance from Natchitoches to the place 
where the transporting party lost their horses, (which must 
be about the distance from Natchitoches to the Pawnee 
village.) as nearly 400 miles by land ; and the distance by 
water, from the place of embarkment to Natchitoches, as 
nearly 1000 miles. 
John Maley travelled in these regions subsequently to 
the removal of the large mass, but visited one or more 
smaller masses. ‘‘ Crossing the river,’ he says, “ at the 
Pawnee village, we took a south-west course over large 
ledges of limestone, and extensive prairies. After a jour- 
ney of 3 days, we were conducted by the Indians to this 
metal. It lay a few miles from the mountain which ap- 
peared to be the same that I have before described, as 
running parallel to the Red River.”? He does not state 
whether he saw one piece or more, but he afterwards 
stipulated for “the two pieces of metal.” The Pawnee 
village, he says, is fifteen hundred miles above the conflu- 
ence of the Red River with the Mississippi { 
Judge Johnson being in company with Mr. Maley some 
years since, entered into conversation on this subject. 
According to his recollection, he was informed by Maley, 
that “‘the pieces were found in the midst of an open ste- 
rile plain, lying near each other, and appearing as if bro- 
ken and scattered in the fall of one entire mass.””—“ The 
place was described by Maley as about 200 [400? 
miles a little north of west from Natchitoches, on [near 4 
* Glass’ MS. Journal. t Dr. Sibley’s Letter. | . 
{Maley’s MS. Journal, 
