J. L. Smith—Nash County Meteorite. 147 
T. A For Saar of the Nash County Meteorite, which fell 
in ee 1874; by J. LAwRENcE SmitTH, of Louisvi lle, Ken- 
tucky. 
THE meteorite of Nash County, North Carolina, fell May 
14th, 1874, at 24 o’clock P. M., near Castalia, in lat. 36° 11’, long. 
a 50. Its = was accompanied with the successive explo- 
ns common in such cases, and with rumbling noises that 
insted about ie minutes, not unlike the discharge of firearms 
in a battle a few miles off. 
The stones that fell must have exceeded a dozen or more; 
from which I am enabled to give the following description 
hey are of the more common aspect. ey havea dull ex- 
terior coating, which in some places does not entirely cover the 
stones, there being a few spots of the fractured surface, less than 
a centimeter in diameter, over which the fused matter forming 
the coating is scattered in the form of pear-shaped beads. In 
one or two crevices, below the surface, some of the fused matter 
of the coating has penetrated five millimeters below the surface, 
and here it is more brilliant than on the surface. 
, The interior in many parts is of a sas gray color, and in 
other parts quite light; the principal cause of the dark color is 
doubtless owing to the larger amount of nickeliferous iron in 
tuat part, and in the lighter portion there are some white spots 
of a mineral that is doubtless enstatite. 
_The specific gravity of the stone is =2°601. Its composi- 
tion 1s 
Nickeliferous iron --_.__-- 15°21 p. ¢. 
Ston i 84°79 
The nickeliferous iron consists of. 
PON coos See ce tena ee 93°12 
Niskel: 2205.52 oo 6°20 
RIG os oo Ss es a ees “41 
98°73 
Copper and phosphorus not estimated. 
he stony part, when treated with a mixture of chlorhydric 
and nitric acid, gave—insoluble part, cpa acai part, 52°98. 
e former was found to be composed as follows: 
