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Nat. Hist. 
(from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76 N. Long. 66 W.) 
the iron of which is meteoric. Of meteoric stones 
(classed with native iron, because they all contain 
this metal, alloyed with nickel) the following 
are placed in chronological order:—a large frag¬ 
ment of the stone which fell at Ensisheim, in Al¬ 
sace, Nov. 7th, 1492, in the presence of the em¬ 
peror Maximilian, then king of the Romans, 
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, 1753, 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 56 pounds, which fell near Wold Cot¬ 
tage, 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. I9th, 1798:—-an entire and a broken specimen 
of the meteoric stones of which a shower descended 
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