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Oil 111 I' lion Meleoritc 



Inminoiis cil" an estimated height of 250 miles ahove the earth. 

 It is revK/rkrflle iliat it teas not visible at the point where flie 

 meteoric mass fell, jji-obably on aceoniit of a small cloud of com- 

 ])ressed matter collecterl in front of it." — {Science for All.) 



Tlie fifry-six pound meteorite, which fell, at 3 I*. M. on Dec. 

 13th, 1795, near Wohl Cottao^e. Thwin.o-, Yorkshire. England 

 (within ten yai'ds of where a lahorei' was working), is remarka- 

 hle for the very j-eason that '' no thunder, lightning, or luminous 

 meteor accompanied the fall ; but in adjacent vilhigcs there was 

 heaid an e.xi)losion. likened by the inhabitants to the fii'ing of 

 _i:uns afa]- off. \\hile in two of them the sounds were so distinct, 

 — of something singular ])assing through the air towards Wold 

 Cottage. — that several people went to see if anything had \\\x\)- 

 pened to the house or grounds." 



A cai'eful com])arison of the Agram Iron* Meteorite, with that 

 of Mazapil, brings to light a most m. irked similarity of detail, 

 though thie Agram iron weighed nearly 70 German '"Pfunds" 

 (39,200 grains) or seven times more. The surface hollowings 

 and the general irregular flat shaj^e shoAv the same occult cause 

 in the origin of both of these masses of celestial iron. 



'I'he Mazapil ii'on in its size (3,864 grammes=10 11)S. 4^ oz. 

 1 roy), is rearly like the irons of Rowton (7f lbs.), Nedagolla, 

 (11 lbs.), Charlotte (9^ lbs.), and Victoria-West (6 lbs. 6 oz.), 

 which were all seen to fall. 



Fig. 2. 



Widmanstatten figures on Mazapil Meteoric-iron. 

 Natural size. 



* See Beitrage zur Geschichte und Kenntniss Meteorischer Stein uud 

 Metall-massen, Dr. (^avl von Schreibers, Wien, 1820, Tab. VIII. 



