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Nat. Hist. 
the many stones which fell^ July 3d, 1/53, at Plaiin, 
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, 1/94 ;—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. 19th, 1798:—an entire and a broken specimen 
of the meteoric stones of which a shower descended 
at Aigle, in the department of the Orne, April 26th, 
1803 ;—fragment of one of those that were seen to 
fall atYvYston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 1807;— 
two meteoric stones with shining black surfaces, 
fallen May 22d, 1808, at Stannern, in Moravia ;— 
two fragments of the Tipperary aerolite which fell 
in August 1810: it contains quartz globules of a 
green colour owing to oxide of nickel;—a frag¬ 
ment of one w^eighing 66 pounds, wiiich fell August 
5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, in the Vendee. 
' {Case 37.) Ores of iron continued:— radiatea 
pyrites of Werner (fer sulfure blanc Haily), a sub¬ 
stance very subject to decomposition: to this be- 
long 
