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also writes that a 50 lb. (?) mass fell* 10 miles from Cleve- 

 land near the state line, which locates it very near where the 

 Whitfield Co. mass was found. Cleveland, Tenn., the place 

 from which the East Tennessee mass is said to have been sent, 

 is on or near a railroad line. The mass was probably sent 

 there for sale or to be worked at one of the iron furnaces. 



When we consider that the war was then in progress and. 

 that even for some years after the war the intercourse which 

 had been broken off was not resumed, it is not unreasonable to 

 suppose that this mass may have lain unnoticed for several 

 years. • 



4. On a mass of Meteoric iron from Waldron Ridge, Claiborne 



Co., Tenn. 



During March, 1887, Judge Fulkerson of Tazewell, Clai- 

 borne Co., Tenn.,f received, from some prospector in the 

 vicinity, specimens of what was supposed to be an ore of iron. 

 Some of these were sent to Dr. J. M. Harbison and Prof. W. 

 E. Moses, of Knoxville, Tenn., to Dr. J. S. Newberry, of the 

 School of Mines, Prof. Safford, of the University of Tenn., and. 

 others. Through the kindness of the three former gentlemen 

 specimens have come into my possession. This iron is one of 

 the Caillite group of Meunier. In structure it is one of the 

 octahedral irons. On the largest piece, weighing 15 lbs., this 

 is very marked, as it is scarcely altered. All the other pieces, 

 weighing collectively several pounds, have been detached from 

 around this piece, which was apparently the center of the mass. 

 The smaller pieces all show considerable weathering. Several 

 perfect octahedrons and one tetrahedron were obtained by 

 simply breaking the iron off with the fingers, it separating very 

 readily at the cleavage plates between which, in nearly all 

 instances, were thin folia of s'chreibersite. Troilite was also 

 observed as well as graphite, clearly suggesting that this iron 

 is identical with the Cosby Creek,;}: Cocke Co.,§ the Sevier 

 Co., I the Greenbrier Co.*j[ mass in the British Museum, and the 

 Jennies Creek, Wayne Co., W. Va.,** meteorites, which, 

 although independently described, are evidently parts of one 

 meteorite, as suggested by Huntington, ff which either 

 exploded on entering our atmosphere so that the fragments 

 traveled according to their impetus, or else threw off these 



* The masses having been supposed to be of meteoric origin it may have been 

 rumored that they had recently fallen when they had simply been found, and 250 

 pounds may have been meant instead of 50. 



\ Datitude 36° 46' North ; longitude 83° 35' W. of Greenwich. 



% Troost, this Journal, I, xxxviii, 253. 



§ Shepard. ib., I, xliii, 354. 



| lb., VI, iv, 83. TfHuntiugton, in British Museum Collection. 



**Kunz, ib.. Ill, xxxi, 145. ff lb., Ill, xxxiii. 



