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crystals, and (2) the more common variety which occurs in 
scales (slightly columnar), forming a narrow seam on two sides 
of a vein of finely granular indianite. The latter variety, as 
itruns for some distance in proximity to the eastern wall of 
the emery, has been called the “fringe rock” by the workmen. 
Var. 1, is the same as that analyzed by Pisani, to whom also 
I furnished the specimens upon which he operated, and whose 
rt I here introduce for comparison with those obtained by 
n, 
Gr. of crystallized variety as determined by Eaton =2°83. 
43 a: 
(Eaton.) (Pisani.) Eaton. 
Sa ae a 24°77 24°0 4°69 
aR RE I eI 25°52  25°9 28°52 
Magnesia, ..__........ 21°88 22-7 21:86 
Protoxyd iron, _...__. 1519 148 16°38 
TS 11:98 11°9 (not determined.) 
99°34 99°83 
It 1s very noticeable that wherever at this locality the corun- 
Whose appropriate designation will be corundophilite slate. 
Amherst College, July 22, 1868, 
en 
Arr, 2 Sgt eae eee locality of Meteoric Iron in Georgia ; 
y CHARLES UpHam SHEPARD. 
ey Indebted to the kindness of Prof. Charles H. Hitch- 
both for a knowledge of the present meteorite and for 
to purchase of the same from its original pro- 
if ". It was ploughed up in April last on the farm of Mr, 
: van, two and a half miles southwest of Losttown, 
It my county, Georgia. ms 
the formes SIX pounds and ten ounces, and has very strikingl 
and ofa human foot. Its color is almost perfectly black, 
: dency Wholly free from stains of iron-rust. It evinces no ten- 
coating. exfoliation ; nor is it uniformly covered by a fused 
2 8: Widmannstittian figures are visible directly in one 
Mrtion of the surface | 
the slice weig g twenty-seven grams was sawn from 
~=' end of the mass, The hardness proved uniform, no py- 
