264 OC. U. Shepard on a Meteoric Iron? from N, Carolina. 
r tarnish; and such is the delicacy of the raised lines, woe 
tures and sinuses of the surface, it is impossible to believe that 1* 
and struck with a hammer, it flew to pieces like glass. 
tured surface was smoothed, and with some difficulty, etched w't 
aqua regia. Its color (unlike to etched steel) was but slightly 
‘darkened; and the developed was simply that of a coarse 
( haroi n to a surface 0” 
limestone, rubbed dow 
