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5lh\y. That by means of nitric acid a matter analogous to 

 refms, mixed with the adipdcerous fubftance, is extraded 

 from it. 



6lh\y. That the concentrated fulphuric, muriatic, and 

 oxigenated muriatic acid, convert it to a coal, wilhout dif- 

 folving it. 



7thly. That with alcahs it forms a faponaceous compound. 



8lhly. That fixed oils, volatile oils, ether and alcohol, are 

 the true folvents of ambergris. 



9thly. And laftly, that alcohol affords the means of feparat- 

 ing its conftituent parts in the following proportions. 

 Adipocerous matter - . - _ 2.01 6grammes. Its conftituent 



Refin 1.167 P""' 



Benzoic acid - - _ - _ 0.425 



Coally matter - - - - -0.212 



3.820. 



IV. 



An Account of fome Stones faid to have fallen on the Earth in 

 France ; and of a Lump of native Iron, faid to have fallen in 

 India. By the Right Hon. Charles Greville, F. R. S*. 



Jl he experiments and obfervations made by Edward How- That ftonyand 

 ard, Efq. on certain ftonv and metalline fubliances faid to f^^^'li'; b"'!'" 



^ - have fallen on 



have fallen on the earth, and the accurate defcription which the earth is 

 the Count de Bournon has given of thofe fubftances, have, ^"'^^ ^^^''''^'*'^' 

 in my opinion, fully eftablifned the following fa6t, namely, 

 that a number of ftones atferted to have fallen under iimilar 

 circumftances, have precifely the fame chara6ters. 



The ftones from Benares, that from Yorkthire, that from 

 Sienna, and that from Bohemia, were the whole which had 

 then been feenin England. They ail contained pyrites of a pe- 

 culiar charader-; they all had acoating of black oxide of iron ; they 

 all contained an alloy of iron and nickel ; and the earths which 

 ferved to them as a fort of connedrng medium, coirefponded 

 in their nature, and nearly in their proportions. 



Since the publication of Mr. Howard's and Count de Three new fpc- 



Pournon's obfervations, I have received from France three cimena from 



France. 



* From the Philgf. Tranf. 1803. 



additional 



