STEWART COUNTY (GEORGIA) METEORITE. 359 



The various analyses referred to above gave, omitting the 



nickeliferous iron : 



The part soluble in acid 58.05 



The part insoluble in acid 41.95 



Soluble part. Insoluble part. 



Silica 41.08 56.03 



Alumina 32 5.89 



Protoxide of iron 18.45 15.21 



Magnesia 41.06 21.00 



Lime .10 



Soda, with a little K and Li... 2.97 



100.83 101 20 



The soluble part consists principally of olivine. The insolu- 

 ble is doubtless the bronzite already referred to, with a little 

 albite or oligoclase. 



Chrome iron was detected by fusing some of the stony part 

 of the meteorite with carbonate of soda and a little niter and 

 separating in the usual way. The quantity was quite minute. 

 The composition of the stone as made out would be 



Nickeliferous iron 7.00 



Magnetic pyrites 6.10 



Bronzite, or hornblende ~\ 



^™ V • '■■ 86.90 



Albite, or oligoclase j 



Chrome iron J 



100.00 



PHENOMENA ATTENDING THE FALL OF THE STONE. 



Mr. J. E. Latimer, of Bladen's Creek, Stewart County, has 

 kindly furnished the following particulars of the flight of the 

 body through the air, and of the several explosions, which\>c- 

 curred nearly vertically above him: 



"The morning of the 6th of October last (1869) was quite 

 clear, scarcely any cloud being visible, quite calm ; about ten a. m. 

 the atmosphere grew somewhat hazy, no clouds ; at about fifteen 

 or twenty minutes before twelve m. a roaring, rushing sound was 

 heard in a north-westerly direction, about 80° above the hori- 

 zon. In a moment or two it was almost directly overhead, at 

 which point a loud explosion occurred, followed in rapid suc- 

 cession by six other reports, but less in volume than the first — 

 making seven in all. The explosions appeared about as loud 

 as a twelve-pound cannon at a distance of ten or twelve miles. 

 These explosions did not occur all at the same point in the 

 heavens, but seemed to emanate from some body moving rapidly 



