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GALLERY. 
of the large mass in the Capitania di Bahia, 
Brazil;—a specimen detached from the large 
mass of iron preserved at Aix-la-chapelle ;—an 
Esquimaux knife and harpoon (from Davis’s 
Straits, Lat. 76° N. Long. 66° W.), the iron of 
which is meteoric ;—native iron from Lenarto, 
Hungary; —from the province of Durango, 
Mexico.—Of meteoric stones , (classed with na¬ 
tive iron, because they all contain this metal, 
generally alloyed with nickel,) the following are 
placed in chronological order:—a large frag¬ 
ment of the stone which fell at Ensisheim, in 
Alsace, Nov. 7th, 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 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 Col¬ 
mar one of the many stones which fell, July 
Sd, 1753, at Plaun, in the circle of Bechin, Bo¬ 
hemia, 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 dimen¬ 
sions that fell at Sienna, in Tuscany, Jan. 16th, 
1794 ;—fragment of the meteoric stone, weigh¬ 
ing 56 pounds, which fell near Wold Cottage, 
in Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 1795;—fragment of a 
stone 
