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XLV. Tranflation of a Letter from M, 
de Stehlin, Counfellor of State to her 
Imperial Majefiy of Ruffia, to Dr*. 
Maty, with a Specimen of native Iron . . 
Redcte, June g, S a teftimony of my attachment to 
firft tribute I owe her, I have the honour to tranftnit 
herewith two real novelties, which I think worthy 
of her notice. 
vered a few years ago by the Ruffians, in the N.E. 
beyond Kamtfhatka. 
The fecond is a piece of raw and native iron ; of 
which Mr. pallas, one of our academicians, who 
has thefe five years been employed in making re- 
fearches in natural hiftory, in the provinces of the 
Ruffian empire, has difcovered 1 aft year a hillock or 
mafs, weighing fifty puds (the pud -con lifting of forty 
Ruffiaji pounds) in Siberia, in the mountains called 
nemir, between the rivulets Ubec andSifim, which 
fall into the river jentsei, fcarce one hundred fa- 
thoms from a rich mine of loadftone or iron 
(a) See the article in the Peterfburg Gazette, 
SIR,. 
the Royal Society, and as the: 
The firft is, a new map , and my preliminary de- 
fer ipt ion, of anew Archipelago in the North, , difeo- 
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