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should be bronglit home, in which case I shall be enabled to give a 

 complete account of all the Greenland discoveries of iron, together 

 with more analyses. I will here simply enumerate the discoveries 

 of iron hitherto made on the western coast of Greenland. 



(1). Boss and Kane's discovery of iron in Davis Strait. — According 

 to these famous polar navigators, the Esquimaux in North Greenland 

 make knives and instruments of iron from some large blocks situated 

 probably somewhere to the north of Upernivik. 



(2). Rin¥s discovery of iron at NialcornaTc, JaTcobsJiavn District. — 

 In 1847 Eink found in the possession of some Greenlanders an iron 

 ball, which they said they had found in a plain covered with boulders 

 near the mouth of the Anorritok Eiver. It weighed 2 lib, with a 

 specific gravity of 7-02. Analysed by Forchammer. Crumbling 

 scarcely perceptible. 



(3). BudolpKs discovery of iron at Fortune Bay. — A piece of iron 

 weighing 11,844 gr. was found by Colonial Governor Kudolph 

 among ballast that had been taken in at Fortune Bay. The iron 

 crumbles much, and belongs probably to the same fall as the iron 

 found at Ovifak. 



(4). FisTcernciss. — A small piece of metallic iron was found by 

 Eink at Fiskemass in South Greenland. The iron was declared by 

 Forchammer to be of meteoric origin. 



And lastly : — 



(5). The Pfaff-Oherg iron from Jahohshavn. 



(6). The iron discovered at Ovifah. 



Lastly it should be mentioned, that the old northern chronicles 

 state, that during the time the old colonies existed in Greenland, 

 so violent a shower of stones once happened that several churches 

 and other buildings were destroyed. 



It is remarkable that Giesecke, in his many years of travel in 

 Greenland, should not have met with any meteoric iron, whereas he 

 mentions that huge balls of iron pyrites were found in the sand-beds 

 of the basalt formation. We also met with some such balls at an 

 elevation of a couple of hundred feet above the sea, between Ujara- 

 susuk and Kudliset. They were as much as from 3 to 4 feet in di- 

 ameter, spherical, and lay loose in the sand close to a basalt dyke. 

 Nevertheless, they did not contain pyrites, but a mineral (not yet 

 analysed) like magnetic pyrites of a very unusual appearance. 



In our excursions round Disko Bay and the Waigat, I availed 

 myself of such opportunities as offered themselves for astronomical 

 determinations of localities. These have since been calculated by 

 Mr. Edward Jaderin, and a detailed account of them will hereafter 

 be published. Here I shall only append a table of the results of the 

 calculations, together with a copy of a part of Eink's map of North 

 Greenland, corrected according to these geographical determinations, 



an expedition to Greenland, 1872, wliicli succeeded in bringing home not only the 

 three meteorites of 21, 8, and 4 tons, but also several smaller ones of from 4 to 200 

 kiloffr. 



