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is from one-tenth of one line up to one line, the width of the ridges 
themselves is hardly one-twentieth of a line. They are evidently Wid- 
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lustrous silicate, sprinkled over the metallic surface like fine sands or in 
little fragments. 
48 portions of real rocks in one and the same heavenly body, from which 
they came to our earth; and that the metallic nickeliferous iron formed 
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_ The forms of the larger and smaller Jumps (cloddy masses ?) inclosed 
im meteorites show, however, many peculiarities, which require a more 
thorough investigation. 
In the meteorite of Hainholz are imbedded globular and ellipsoidal 
lumps of iron of the size of a hazelnut. They are no ments, and 
ing silicate, The mass shows after etching a very peculiar appearance, 
the iron appears in-small lumps of about two lines in SIZ 
homogenous structure, visible by simultaneous reflection, | ; 
of these are dendritically marbled by inclosed particles of silicate. Besides, 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—Szconp Serms, VoL. XXXII, No. 9%—Juxy, 1861. 
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