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Nat. Hist. 
iron preserved at Aix-la-chapelle ;—an Esqui¬ 
maux knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, 
Lat. 16'' 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 native iron,because 
they all contain this metal alloyed with nickel), 
the following are placed in chronological order : 
■—-a laro'e fragment of the stone which fell at 
Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. 7th, 1492, in the 
presence of theEmperor Maximilian,thenkingof 
the Romans, when on the point of engaging with 
the French army : this mass, which weighed 270 
pounds, was preserved in the cathedral of Ensis¬ 
heim 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, Bohemia, 
and which contain a great proportion of attract¬ 
able 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 ;—frag¬ 
ment of the meteoric stone, weighing 56 pounds, 
which fell near Wold Cottage,in Yorkshire,Dec. 
ISth, 1795 ;—fi’agment of a stone of 20 pounds, 
which fell in the commune of Sales, near Ville- 
franche, in the department of the Rhone, March 
12 th, 1798;—specimens of stones fallen near the 
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