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Nat. Hist. 
the many stones which fell, July 3d, 1753, atPlaun, 
in the circle ofBechin, 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 nesft* 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 
Rh6ne, 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 at Weston, 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 Augustl810: it contains quartz globules of a green 
colour owing to oxide of nickel;—a fragment of 
that of Berlanguillas, in Catalonia, July 8th, 1811;— 
a fragment of one weighing 66 pounds, which fell 
August 5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, in the Vendee. 
(Case 37.) Ores of iron continued :—radiated 
pyrites of-Werner (fer sulfure blanc Haily), a sub¬ 
stance very subject to decomposition; to this be- 
long 
