370 W. #. Hidden—Meteorite from Cleberne Co., Alabama. 
Art. XLVI.—An account of the eat = if a ce —— in 
Cleberne County, Alabama; by W 
WHEN in eastern Alabama, during last autumn, carrying 
forward some mineralogical investigations in the interest of 
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, I learned from Ex-Governor 
Smith of Wedowee, of the existence of a supposed mass of 
native iron, which he believed 5 ae perhaps be a meteorite. 
The account which he gave me of it, in his own words, is as 
follows: ‘Sometime in 1873, while the Rev. John F. Watson 
was plowing on a newly cleared piece of land, near Chulafin- 
nee, in Cleberne county, Ala. he turned up a heavy mass of 
metal. He supposed it to be a rich specimen of bog iron ore, 
which exists in considerable quantity in the vicinity, and took 
the mass home. Some days later he carried it to the village 
blacksmith to have it tested. After heating one corner in the 
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forge, a piece of bon 8h Ste was cut off and wrought into 
horseshoe nails and a point for a plow. The fact of its mallea- 
bility tended to set at rest the various local theories about the 
origin of the mass, and it was there agreed to be a specimen of 
native iron. The mass was then deposited in the office of the 
itege Brothers’ Iron Works at Anniston, Alabama, and re- 
mains there now unsuspected of being a meteorite, and will in 
all arobabihiiy 4 get into the furnace sooner or lat 
rough t the kindness of Governor Smith, ike specimen was 
secured and forwarded tome. On January 21st, 1880, it was 
