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—native iron from Gvoss-kanisdorf, In Saxony ;— 
two small polished pieces of the mass found in 
Southern Africa, \vhich 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 
Cells, 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 Abakansk 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 anal^^sed 
by Gelilen. Of nieteorie stones (classed with na¬ 
tive iron, because they all contain this metal, alloyed 
with nickel) the following are placed in chronological 
order :—a large fragment of the stone which fell at 
Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov.’7th, 1492, in the pre¬ 
sence of the emperor Maximilian, then king of the 
Romans, when on. the point of engaging with the 
French army: this mass, which weighed270 pounds, 
w’as 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 
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