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small portion of lime, but in which is often found a 
fluate of the new earth to which Berzelius has given 
the name of thoria. 
In the opposite compartment of this table case 
are deposited (as appendix to the ores of iron) the 
substances called a'erolithes, because they have fall¬ 
en from the atmosphere, or meteoric stones, be¬ 
cause they are by some supposed to be depositions 
from meteors. The specimens of the former are, 
—native iron from Gross-kamsdorf in Saxony;— 
two small polished pieces of the mass found in 
Southern Africa, which weighed about 250 pounds, 
and is now in the cabinet of Haarlem;—fragment 
of the iron from Senegal;—specimens of the native 
iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Chaco Gualamba, 
in South America, described by Don Rubin de 
Celis, who estimated the weight of the mass to be 
about 300 quintals, or 15 tons ;—a large piece de¬ 
tached from the celebrated mass of Siberian native 
iron, which was discovered by Pallas on the summit 
of a hill between Abakan sk and Belskoi Ostrog on 
the banks of the Jenisey, where it was considered 
by the Tartars as a sacred relic: the mass origi¬ 
nally weighed about 1,680 pounds;—a piece of the 
large mass from Ellenbogen, in Bohemia, and an¬ 
other of that found on Collina di Brianza, in Milan, 
which has been described by Chladni and analysed 
by Gehlen.—An Esquimaux knife and harpoon, 
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SALOOX. 
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