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year by year, or generation after generation, nearly everything 
spoken of being explained or interpreted by the ryan weer 
turning page after page, we do not know which to onder 
or Sstacahonita, and in it have drawn his own nama conclusions 
from so vast an array of facts, As it is, the work will remain, as 
Rev. Mr. Morrison says, a vast storehouse, from which other wri- 
ters may draw the treasures with which they may pronase their 
readers, or delight mankin . CE 
IIL MIscELLANEOUS ScIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
in rey at a distance of two miles from the any 
smaller pieces, of a few ounces or pounds tin gh were Shasta 
in the vicinity. smaller mass fell u and 
Gontiakes the earth sagas to a depth of 44 feet. The fall 
was accompanied by a age scribed as a continuous roll of 
thunder accompanied. b Leckey © 
und. 
rough the efforts of Piofemol E. J. “hiini pia of our Faculty 
the smaller me has been obtained for the University cabinet. It 
is irregularl Cay in ssn about 15x18 inches and of an 
average thickness of six in 
A preli iminary chemical seater Fe shows the metallic portion 
to consist of a of iron, nickel and tin. Full half the mass 
consists of stony matter, which appears in dark-green crystal- 
line masses embedded in a light-gray matrix. When the whole 
is powdered, a violent reaction ensues on the addition of hydro- 
chloric acid, which is increased on boiling. The boiling acid 
appeared to dissolve all but the gray matrix, abundance of iron 
passing | me ot ae on. Some of the so aii masses are two 
properties of the minerals and matrix. 
he chemical examination was first attempted upon a very 
small quantity of material, but, now that we have an n ample quan- 
tity, a complete Paget of the several minerals and the alloy 
will’ be be made. mall Nec, of the metal Seine and etched 
