^32 Account (^Meteoric Stones and Masses of Iron^ ^e, 
3817, May 2. and 3. There is reason to think, that masses of 
stone fell in the Baltic after the great meteor of Gottenburg, 
— CJiladm. 
1818, Feb. 15. A great stone appears to have fallen at Limoge, 
but it has not been disinterred. — Gazette de France^ Feb. 25. 
1818. 
July 29. O. S. A stone of 7 lb. fell at the village of Slo- 
bodka in Smolensko. It penetrated nearly sixteen inches in- 
to the ground. It had a brown crust with metalhc spots. 
Chap. II. — List of Masses of Iron supposed to have 
FALLEN FROM THE HeaVENS. 
Sect. I. — Spongy or Cellular Masses containing Nickel. 
1. The mass found by Pallas in Siberia, to which the Tartars 
ascribe a meteoric origin. — Voyages de Pallas, tom. iv. 
p. 545. Paris 1793. 
2. A fragment found between Eibenstock and Johanngeorgen- 
stadt. 
3. A fragment probably from Norway, and in the imperial ca- 
binet of Vienna. 
4. A small mass weighing some pounds, and now at Gotha. 
5. Two masses in Greenland, out of which the knives of the Es- 
quimauN were made. — See our last Number, p. 154, 155, 
and Ross’s Account of an Expedition to the Arctic Regions. 
Sect. II. — Solid Masses where the Iron exists in Rhomboids 
or Octohedrons, composed of Strata, and containing Nickel. 
1. The only fall of iron of this kind, is that which took place at 
Agram in 1751. 
2. A mass of the same kind has been found on the right bank 
of the Senegal. — Compagnon, Forster, Goldberry. 
3. At the Cape of Good Hope ; Stromeyer has lately detected 
cobalt in this mass. — Van Marum and Dankelman ; Brandds 
Journal, vol. vi. 162, 
4. In dilferent parts of Mexico. — Sonneschmidt, Humboldt, 
and the Gazette de Mexico, tom. i. and v. 
5. In the province of Bahia in Brazil. It is seven feet long, 
four feet wide, and two feet thick, and its weight about 
14,000 lb. — Mornoy and Wollastonr, Phil. Trans- 1816ij 
p. 270, 281. 
