440 TROF. NORDENSKIOLD, EXPEDITION TO GREENLAND. 



face, pieces of basalt, or fragments of a crust of basalt, perfectly 

 similar to the basalt in the above-described ridge. The inner 

 part of the iron mass contained no basalt, and as far as analysis 

 has yet been able to discover, scarcely any traces of silica. In 

 the neighbourhood of the smaller stones the sand and gravel were 

 rusty with the effects of the weathering of the meteorites, yet 

 their upper surface was usually pretty pure, but the under surface 

 generally rusty. The larger stones Avere strongly polar-magnetic, 

 so that the upper part of the stones attracted the north, the° lower 

 part the south pole of the magnetic needle. 



Within the area represented on the map above-mentioned not 

 exceeding 50 square metres, the following blocks of meteoric 

 iron were found by the Expedition of 1870 : 



Tig. 14.— The three largest Meteoric Stones.* From a sketch made on 

 the spot by Dr. Th. Nordstrom in 1870. 



kilog. 



21,000 



8,000 



7,000 

 142 

 96 



1. Ovally rounded. Greatest diam. above ground 2 



metres, smallest 1*7 m. Probable weight - 



2. Nearly spherical. Greatest and least diam. above 



ground, 1*3 and 1*27 met. Probable weight 



3. Somewhat conical. Greatest and least diam. above 



ground, 1 • 1 5 and • 85 met. Probable weight 



4. Oval stone, weighing - . _ _ 



5. A drop-shaped stone, weighing - - - yb 



6. Another : now belonging to the British Museum ; about 87 



7. A stone, weighing - - - - _ 54 



8. A stone „ - - _ _ _ 31 



9. A stone „ . - . _ _ about 42 



10. A stone ---__. 13 



11. A stone -___,_ 24 



12. A stone, which immediately after our arrival home fell 



to dust ; originally weighing - - about 54 



13. A smaller stone, weighing - - _ . 5.4 



14. Another „ - . _ . 3.4 



15. Another „ - _ . _ 2*5 

 Several lenticular pieces of iron from the basalt vein, 



3-4 inches thick, weighing altogether - - about 100 



* Nos. 1, 2, and 3 of the list : brought to Europe by the Swedish Greenland 

 Expedition of 1872, under command of Capt. Baron von Ober, 



