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the surface, so in minute distorted crystals with limonite at the McCulloh 
Mine, in Guilford county, arborescent and in crystalline plates at the 
Union Copper Mine, in Cabarrus county, near Gold Hill ; one lump of 
copper, aboat two inches in size, much resembling that from the Cliff 
Mine, Lake Superior, said to have been found in Stokes county, is in the 
Museum at Raleigh ; it also occurs in quartz and epidote-rock at Harris 
mountain, one-half mile east of Gillis Mine, Person county. A very in- 
teresting association is that of native copper in quartz crystals from lower 
Mecklenburg county, as observed by Mr. E. Bissell. 
G. Ircn. 
Mo terrestrial native iron has been observed in Morth Carolina, but a 
great number of highly interesting meteoric masses have been found in 
the State; many of them have been preserved through the industrious 
perseverance of General Clingman, and were described by Prof. Shepard. 
The meteorites found were both irons and stones. They are : 
1. The Asheville iron, described 1839 by Shepard, weight about thirty 
pounds ; found six miles north of Asheville ; 
2. The Hominy Creek iron, near the base of Pisgah Mountain, ten 
miles west of Asheville ; also described by Shepard ; 
3. The Black Mountain iron, from the head of the Swannanoa river,, 
fifteen miles east of Asheville ; described by Shepard ; 
3. The Guilford County iron, described by Shepard ; 
5. The Randolph County iron, found 1S22, and described by Shepard ; 
6. The Caswell County iron, which fell January 7th, 1S10, and weighed 
three pounds ; described by Madison ; 
7. The Madison County iron, from Jewel Hill ; described by T J. L. 
Smith ; 
8. The Haywood County iron, which weighed only 1-8 of an ounce ; 
described bv Shepherd ; 
9. The Rockingham County iron, from Smith Mountain, where a 
farmer picked it up in 18G6, on an old field, grown up with pines, but 
cultivated ten or fifteen years previously. It fell probably during the time 
in which the field was not in cultivation. A preliminary analysis, which 
I have made of this iron, leaves no doubt of its meteoric origin ; (in the 
Museum at Raleigh.) 
10. The Cabarrus County stone ; described by Shepard ; 
11. A peculiar substance, consisting principally of iron and silicon, sup- 
posed to be of meteoric origin, has been found near Rutherfordton. 
Shepard described it and called it “ ferrosilicine.” 
