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Southern Africa, which weighed about 260 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 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 analysed 
by Gehlen. An Esquimaux knife and harpoon, 
(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 con¬ 
tain this metal, alloyed with nickel) the fol¬ 
lowing are placed in chronological order:—a 
large fragment of the stone which fell at Ensis- 
heim, 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 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 
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