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Jenisey, where it was considered by the Tartars as a sacred relic • the 
mass, which originally weighed about 1680 pounds, is in the Museum of 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, by whom our sped 
men was presented. — Specimens of the native iron from Otumpa, in the 
tjran Chaco Gualamba, in South America, described, in 1783, by Don 
Kubin de Cells, 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- 
pileo, first brought into notice in 1784.— A large piece (presented bv 
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 
V! th ® 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 ud- 
wards of 3300 pounds, found at Bitburg, in the Eifel, N. of Treves, in 
Khenish Prussia, but which, from ignorance, was committed to the 
smelting furnace. —Three specimens of iron from Rasgata, N. E. of 
lf nta n/ de Bo £ ota ’ South America; found in 1810, and described 
about 24 years afterwards. — A piece from the large mass (originally 
weighing 191 pounds, of which upwards of two-thirds came to the'lmpe- 
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 verwunschte 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 f A mass of iron from Lockport, New York ; found 
in 1818, described in 1845. — A specimen of the iron from Burlinorton, 
in the Otsego County, New York; found in 1819. — An Esquimaux 
knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° 12' 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 
i* .^* ^ mass ^ ron frora 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 which 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- 
ville, Green County, Tennessee, found in 1842. — The greater part 
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for 1788: its weight 1400 pounds. 
Woodbine Parish. 
, It T he de kneations thus produced are known by the appellation of Widmann- 
sted figures. 
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