42 JT" P. Blake — Meteorite from Green County, Tenn. 



Inches. Meter. 



Length 36 -9144 



Breadth 10 '2540 



Thickness 6 '1524 



Girth 24 '5991 



The cutting off of small fragments from each end before it 

 came into my possession has, apparently, reduced the original 



length three, or possibly as much 

 as six, inches, assuming that the 

 mass was prolonged in the direc- 

 tion of the remaining surfaces. 

 The surface is scaly and rusty, 

 19H B but is in general smooth and evenly 

 H curved, with the exception of sev- 

 eral cup-shaped indentations or 

 depressions, one of which, near 



!, fJS§I1 HI one e d& e > gi yes tDe inward curva- 

 B ture in the elliptical outline seen 

 in fig. 1. One of the depressions 

 is nearly three inches broad and 

 an inch in depth. So far as the 

 examination of the mass has ex- 

 tended, the interior not having yet 

 been laid open to view, these de- 

 pressions do not appear to be due 

 to the weathering out of more or 

 less globular inclusions, such as 

 troilite or schreibersite, but rather 

 to the unequal exfoliation. The 

 I mass when struck by a hammer 

 is remarkably sonorous and seems 

 I to be very compact and sound 

 throughout. 

 fH This meteorite clearly belongs 

 wS to the class of exfoliating deliques- 

 cent irons, several examples of 

 HI which have been found in Tennes- 

 see and the adjacent States of 

 Georgia and Worth Carolina. The 

 oxidized crust is in some places 

 very thin and a few strokes of a 

 file develops the unchanged bright 

 iron below, but in other parts of 

 the mass the crust has been found 

 to be much thicker, especially 

 after the meteorite has stood un- 

 moved for several years. Flakes 

 as broad as the hand, and nearly one-quarter of an inch in 



