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saloon. Ensisheim till the beginning cf the French re- 
Nat. Hist, volution, when it was conveyed to the public 
library of Col mar; — one cf the many stones 
which fell. July 3d. I 7 53 . at Plann, in the cir- 
cle of Bechin, Bohemia, and which contain a 
great proportion of attractable iron ; — specimens 
of these that were seen to fall at Roquefort and 
at Juliac, in the Landes of Gascony. July :24th, 
179° 5 — Gne °f a dozen of stones of various 
weights and dimensions that fell at Sienna, in 
Tuscanv, Jan. l6th. 1794; — fragment of the 
meteoric stone, weighing 50 pounds, which fell 
near Wold Cottage, in Yorkshire. Dec. 13th, 
1795 ; — fragment of a stone of -O pounds, which 
fell in the commune of Sales, near Villefranche, 
in the department of the Rhone, March 12th, 
1 79 s ; — specimens of stones fallen near the city 
of Benares, in the East-Indies, Dec. 19th, 1 79S ; 
— an entire and a broken specimen of the me- 
teoric stones of which a shower descended at 
l'Aigle, in the department of the Orne, April 
2oth, 1S03: — fragment of one of those that 
were seen to fail at Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 
14th. ISOJ. 
[Case 33.) Ores of iron continued : — radiated 
pyrites of Werner (fer sulfure blanc Hauy) a 
substance very subject to decomposition : to this 
belong most of the varieties cf what is called 
lenticular 
