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A polished surface is dense dark brown in color, abun- 

 dantly besprinkled with small flecks of metal and with 

 a chondritic structure very obscure owing to the similar- 

 ity in color of chondrules and ground. In thin sections 

 the stone is found to be so badly discolored and other- 

 wise injured by oxidation of the ferruginous minerals as 

 to make microscopic determinations somewhat difficult. 

 Olivine, enstatite and twinned monoclinic pyroxenes 

 together with nickel iron form the recognizable con- 

 stituents. The structure is chondritic, the individual 

 chondrules often fragmental but showing no uncommon 

 variations. The ground is distinctly fragmental, a con- 

 dition much exaggerated by oxidation. The iron sul- 

 phide still retains in part its original identity, but the 

 staining by oxidation so obscures minor details that the 

 presence or absence of other minerals than those noted 

 cannot with certainty be made out. No chemical analy- 

 sis has been deemed worth the while under the condi- 

 tions mentioned. 



Eustis is situated in Lake County, about Latitude 

 28° 20' north, Longitude 81° 40' west, 150 miles south of 

 Jacksonville and about 130 miles northeast of Lake 

 Okechobee. This last distance is given from the fact 

 that the stone so closely resembles in structure, mineral 

 composition and oxidized condition that recently 

 described by the writer 1 as to at once suggest its being 

 a part of the same fall. Nevertheless, the distance is so 

 great that in view of the lack of confirmatory evidence, 

 it seems best to distinguish it for the present by an inde- 

 pendent name. Mr. Alger states that a family living 

 about 2 miles from Eustis saw, about 25 years ago, a 

 meteorite fall and made fruitless search for it, contenting 

 themselves with a fragment of sandstone which they 

 mistook for the object in question. The meteor as seen 

 was traveling toward Eustis and it would seem probable 

 at least that this was the one here described. The stone 

 will be classified as a spherulitic chondrite and, pending 

 further information, known as the Eustis stone, the 

 second find of meteorites within the state limits of 

 Florida. 



1 A Newly Found Meteoric Stone from Lake Okechobee, Florida, Proe. 

 U. S. National Museum, vol. 51, pp. 525 and 526, 1916. 



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