98 NATURAL HISTORY. [LONG 
with native iron, because they all contain this metal, gene¬ 
rally alloyed with nickel) the following are placed in chro¬ 
nological order:—a large fragment of the stone which fell 
at Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. 7th, 1492, in the presence 
of the Emperor Maximilian, then king of the Homans, 
when on the point of engaging with the French army; 
this mass, which weighed 270 pounds, was preserved in the 
cathedral of Ensisheim till the beginning of the French 
revolution, when it was conveyed to the public library of 
Colmar;—one of the many stones which fell, July 3d, 1 753, 
at Plaun, in the circle of Bechin, Bohemia, and which 
contain a great proportion of attractable iron ;—specimens 
of those that were seen to fall at Roquefort and at Juliac, 
in the Landes of Gascony, July 24th, 1790;—one of a 
dozen of stones of various weights and dimensions that 
fell at Sienna, in Tuscany, Jan. 16th, 1794;—fragment of 
the meteoric stone* weighing 58 pounds, which fell near 
Wold Cottage, in Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 1795;—fragment 
of a stone of 20 pounds, which fell in the commune of 
Sales, near Villefranche, in the department of the Rhone, 
March 12th, 1798:—specimens of stones fallen near the 
city of Benares, in the East Indies, Dec. 19th, 1798;— 
entire and broken specimens of the meteoric stones of which 
a shower descended at Aigle, in the department of the 
Orne, April 26th, 1803;—fragment of that of Smolensk, 
June 27th, 1807;—fragment of one of those that were 
seen to fall at Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, J 807;—— 
two meteoric stones with shining black surfaces fallen May 
22d, 1808, at Stannern, in Moravia;—two fragments of 
the Tipperary meteorite which fell in August, 1810: it 
contains quartz globules of a green colour, owing to oxide 
of nickel;—a fragment of that of Rerlanguillas, in Cata¬ 
lonia, July 8th, 1811;—a fragment of one, weighing 66 
pounds, which fell August 5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, in 
the Vendee;—fragment of the meteoric stone which.fell at 
Adare, in the county of Limerick, Ireland, in 1813;—frag¬ 
ment of one of those which fell Sept. 5th, 1814, at Agen, 
in the Pyrenees, and another of that which descended at 
Juvenas (Ardeche), on June 15th, 1821. 
Among the specimens of native copper, (which presents 
a great variety of forms besides the crystallized, such as 
dendritic, filiform. See.) may be specified the mass from 
