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four irregular smoother planes, which, meeting one another with two 
acute and two obtuse angles, form a somewhat pyramidal four-sided 
figure, tapering rapidly towards this end of the mass, and terminating 
in an irregular quadrilateral extremity. 
_ _ In its greatest length it measures 103 inches, and in its widest part, 
about the middle of its length, 7 iuches; its circumference round the 
larger extremity is 1 foot 3 inches, in its widest part, round the lobular 
projections, 1 foot 84 omg d “Seow within 14 inches of the point its 
circumference is only 94 inc 
It weighed 32lbs., 11 ounces cane 14 drachms avoirdupois. 
Its surface has a dark reddish brown, in some parts a blackish, calor: 
the lobulated parts show here. and there, e especially in the furrows, spots 
a brighter red color. For the purpose of preserving the original shape, 
plaster casts were taken before it was cut u 
It was cut longitudinally into two portions, and one of them again 
into ee slices. 
I ound to be entirely free from any foreign admixtures, such as 
ee ‘As. and of a bright white a and solid, dense, and hey -like 
u ort y 
ilar appearance, but displays more distinctly the characteristic and f 
like lines of crystallization crossing each other at Hee angles 
lines are very fine and minute in texture, and the rite resannblla in 
structure that of hazelnut size found many years “aio ge Leadhills, and 
described by R. P. Greg, Esq. 
Dr. Murray Thomson found the spec. grav. of different portions, 6° 1919, 
6-499 and 6°7400; that of the pyramidal portion 6°750; that of the 
lobed portion 6-350, that of the whole mass =6-517, The 5 composition 
of the meteorite is sonicing to Dr. M. Thomson: 
- - - 93°51 
Nickel, - . - 4°86 
Silica, - - - O-oL 
Carbon, - - - 0-59 
; 8. The meteoric iron from Sarepta.—Director Wm. Haidi ar “a 
as neeting of on 24th, 1862, of the ete fe tow fi of 
—-§nte r obse on ee iron from 8: His} 
