524 Dr. pallas’s Account of 
the Royal Society, as well as the higheft refpedl to that 
learned Body. 
I have embraced the opportunity of a parcel I fent to 
Mr. drury, to offer the Society a fpecimen of the native 
iron, of which I found out a large mafs in the Siberian 
mountains, which actually is tranfporting to Peterfburg. 
1 read in fome foreign journals, that a lhort account of 
this mafs has been publifhed in the laft volume of Phi- 
lolophical Tranfadtions, out of a letter of the honourable 
M. staehlin of our Academy ; but as the contents of it, 
drawn frtfm the informations I gave to our Academy in 
my itinerary relations, feem not to have been exadl, I 
beg leave to give you here a faithful and fuller account 
of the place and circumftances, in which that memorable 
mafs was found. 
It is to be obferved, that in the neighbourhood of the 
river Jenifei, one of the largeR, that runs from the South 
through Siberia and to the Northern Ocean, and near 
which the mafs of native iron has been detedled, there is 
great plenty of iron ores, as well in the flat layers towards 
the Northern level of the country, where, amongft 
others, whole banks of ocraceous minerals, with Mat- 
tered trees and pieces of wood turned to rich iron ore, 
and near the town of Jenifeifk, a rich iron ore, in the 
form of white clay and white fparry Rones, is to be 
found ; as alfo in the Reep mountains, where the Jirata 
dip very confiderably, and ores of iron, copper, and 
even impregnated with gold, are found in veins and 
neRs* On the mountains, that lie along the EaRern 
l . • fide 
