1848.] Meteoric Iron from the Kurruckpore hills. 547 



and certes, our Indian Sintians of the Kurruckpore hills, " received" 

 and comforted their Godling, in the worship they paid to him, and 

 perhaps also have their legend and myth respecting him, if we could only 

 obtain it ? More than one of these wonderful bodies were worshipped by 

 the ancients and have been even held to be personifications of the heathen 

 divinities. The thunderstone in Crete, regarded as the symbol of Cybele ; 

 the Ancyle or sacred shield of Numa, and " the mother of the Gods" 

 at Pessinus, are all cases which will readily occur as fortifying my 

 conjecture (see Art. Meteorolites, Ure's Diet. &c.) Cicero (De Natura 

 Deorum, Lib. III. par. XXIII.) describes four well known Vulcans ; 

 the Athenian, Egyptian, Lemnian and Menalian or Liparian Vulcans. 



Chemical Examination. 



The examination of the siliceous specks and olivine I have already 

 described. 

 The specific gravity of a small specimen of the metallic part, 



carefully chosen to avoid cavities, was, 6. 76 



The specific gravity of the forged bit is, 7. 31 



Scoriaceous part, , 4. 03 



I have satisfied myself by repeated and careful examination that our 

 specimen contains 



Iron, 



Nickel, 



Cobalt, 



Chromium, 



Silica, 



Alumina, 



and traces of Arsenic and Selenium. 



But these again are most variable in their presence and amount, so 

 that no two assays will give like results, and thus the whole contradict- 

 ing each other, as it were, renders it impossible to give a quantitative 

 analysis either of the metallic or the scoriaceous parts in any degree 

 satisfactory. 



i" estimate therefore from several trials that the metallic part con- 

 tains about 



4 c 



