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Jenisey, where it was considered by the Tartars as a sacred relic : the 
mass, w T hich originally weighed about 1680 pounds, is in the Museum of 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, by whom our speci- 
men was presented. — Specimens of the native iron from Otumpa, in the 
Gran Chaco Gualamba. in South America, described, in 1783, by Don 
Rubin de Celis, who estimated the weight of the mass to be about 300 
quintals, or 15 tons*. — A large specimen of the Brazilian iron, found 
at the Bemdego rivulet, Capitania of Bahia, in 1784, described in 1816. 
— Some of the Mexican meteoric iron supposed to be from that of Xiqui- 
pilco, first brought into notice in 1784. — A large piece (presented by 
John Parkinson, Esq.) of the iron of Zacatecas, Mexico, known, time 
out of mind, but first described in 1792; and a small one of that found 
in the province of Durango, first described by Baron Alexander von 
Humboldt (this has by some been confounded with that of the preced- : 
ing locality). — Two pieces of the Cape meteoric iron, found in 1793,. 
and first made known in Barrow’s Travels in Southern Africa : the mass 
is now in the cabinet of Haarlem. — A portion of the mass, weighing up- 
wards of 3300 pounds, found at Bitburg, in the Eifel, N. of Treves, in 
Rhenish Prussia, but which, from ignorance, was committed to the < 
smelting furnace. — Three specimens of iron from Rasgata, N. E. of 
Santa Fe de Bogota, South America; found in 1810, and described 
about 24 years afterwards. — A piece from the large mass (originally j 
weighing 191 pounds, of which upwards of two-thirds came to the Impe- 
rial Collection at Vienna) of the iron of Elbogen, near Carlsbad in Bo- 
hemia, where from time immemorial it had been known by the popular 
appellation of the Enchanted Burgrave (der verwimschte Burggraf) ; its 
meteoric origin ascertained in 1811. — Small portions of the meteoric 
iron from Texas, known to the scientific world since 1814. — Two speci- 
mens of the mass of iron found at Lenarto in Hungary, in 1814, one 
of which, being polished and treated with acid, exhibits the outlines of 
imperfect crystals h . — A mass of iron from Lockport, New York ; found 
in 1818, described in 1845. — A specimen of the iron from Burlington, 
in the Otsego County, New York; found in 1819. — An Esquimaux 
knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° 12 1 N., Long. 53°) 
the iron of which is meteoric, (mentioned in Capt. Ross’s voyage, 
1819,) and presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. — - 
Small portions of the iron from Guildford, North Carolina, discovered 
in 1820. — A mass of iron from the province of Atacama, republic of 
Bolivia, resembling that of Siberia, and, like it, containing much of an 
olivine-like substance within its cells ; described in 1827, and presented 
by Sir Woodbine Parish. — A mass from the N.E. corner of Walker 
County, Alabama, found in 1832. — A specimen of the iron w r hich was 
seen to fall, July 31st, 1835, in Dickson County, Tennessee — A pon- 
derous piece of iron from Crosby’s Creek in the S. W. part of Cocke 
County, Tennessee, found 1839, (with this is placed a mass of gra- 
phite found in it, weighing 830 grains) A smaller piece from Green- 
* The large mass of iron placed against the wall under the window, was sent 
from Buenos Ayres, in 182(1, by Mr. (since Sir Woodbine) Parish ; it is supposed 
to be part of that of Otumpa, described by Rubin de Celis in the Philos. Trans, 
for 1788: its weight 1400 pounds. Presented by Sir Humphry Davy and Sir 
Woodbine Parish i 
t The delineations thus produced are known by the appellation of Widmann- 
sted figures. 
