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Africa, which weighed about 250 pounds, and is 
now in the cabinet of Haarlem ;—fragment of 
the iron from Senegal;—specimens of the na¬ 
tive iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Chaco Gua- 
lamba, 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 detached from the celebrated mass of 
Siberian native iron, which was discovered by 
Pallas on the summit of a hill between Abakansk 
and Belskoi Ostrog on the banks of the Jenisey, 
where it was considered by the Tartars as a 
sacred relic : the mass originally weighed about 
1,680 pounds;—a polished piece of the large 
mass found at Ellenbogen, in Bohemia, ana¬ 
lysed by Klaproth.—Of meteoric stones (class¬ 
ed with native iron, because they all con¬ 
tain this metal, alloyed with nickel) the follow¬ 
ing are placed in chronological order:—two 
small fragments of the stone which fell at 
Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. /th, 1492, in the 
presence of the emperor Maximilian, then king 
of the Romans, when on the point of engaging 
with the French army : this mass, which weigh¬ 
ed 270 pounds, was preserved in the cathedral of 
Ensisheim till the beginning of the French re¬ 
volution, when it was conveyed to the public 
m library 
SALOON. 
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