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observed grain was 1} lines long and one line broad. The mass is crossed 
by fissures in different directions intersecting at well defined angles, some 
of them filled up with the material resembling that forming the crust, 
others by magnetic pyrites and iron. ese fissures show the phenomena 
peculiar to veins, they intersect, join and throw each other out of their 
course. Although the mass is soft and may be scraped easily, it contains 
here and there harder globules of a greyish white color, others have a 
‘others have a plate-like linear structure and are lustrous. The crust is 
iron. » Haidinger found the sp. gr. at 17° R. =3°526. 
It belongs to Reichenbach’s whitish meteorites, 2d family, 1st group. 
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coherent and almost friable. The grains are both round and angular 
and from greyish white to dark smoke-grey, the largest not over one line 
in diameter, xceedingly small particles of met. iron and pyrites (or 
ass, 
€ crust is greyish black inclining to brown, without lustre and not 
over ¢ line in thickness. Sp. grav. ==3°737. It belongs to Reichenbach’s 
second group. 
(6.) The real locality of a stone, which was found in 1846 and which 
Piddington supposes to be from Assam, is not known. Two of the three 
It is very thin and shows some round flat Ss indi 
part of the meteorite. . gr. at 17° R, = 3°792. 
(7.) The fall of ee Mepeastan meteorite took place on March oy sare 
at noon. Persons at a distance of a few miles from the place of its 
