PROF. NOKDENSKIOLD, EXPEDITION TO GREENLANP. 447 



(2.) Rink's discover?/ of Iron at Niakornak, Jakobshavn Distinct. 

 — In 1847 Rink 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 River. It weighed 

 2 lib, with a specific gravity of 7*02. Analysed by Forchammer. 

 Crumbling scarcely perceptible. 



(3.) Rudolph's discovery of Iron at Fortune Bay. — A piece of 

 iron weighing 11,844 gr. was found by Colonial Governor Rudolph 

 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.) Fiskernds. — A small piece of metallic iron was found by 

 Rink at Fiskernas in South Greenland. The iron w^as declared 

 by Forchammer to be of meteoric origin. 



(5.) The Pfoff- Oberg Iron from Jakobshavn. 



(6.) The Iron discovered at Ovifak. 



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 

 nodules at an elevation of two hundred feet above the sea, 

 between Ujarasusuk and Kudliset. They were as much as from 

 3 to 4 feet in diameter, 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. (^Sce above, p. 335.) 



LV.~On Meteoric Irons found in Greenland. By 

 Walter Flight, D.Sc, F.G.S., of the Department of 

 Mineralogy, British Museum ; Assistant Examiner in 

 Chemistry, University of London. 



[Reprinted, by Permission, from the *' Geological Magazine," new 

 series, vol. ii., Nos. 3 and 4, March and April, 1875, pp. 115 

 and 152.] 



Meteoric Irons found August, 1870. — Ovifak (or Uigfak) near 

 Godhavn, Kekertarssuak or Island of Disko, Greenland ; Lat. 

 09° 19' 30" N. ; Long. 54° 1' 22" W.* 



The interesting story of the discovery of these enormous masses, 

 by Prof. Nordenskjold is already known to the readers of the 



* A. E. Nordenskjold, Redogorelse for en Expedition till Gronland Ar 1870 • 

 K. Vet.-Akad. FiJrh., 1870, 873. (See translation in GcoL Ma</., IX. 289, et 

 seq.)—l>. Forbes, Abstract Proc. Geol. Soc, No. 238, November 8th, 1871 • 



