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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 that of Smolensk, June 27th, 
1807 ;—fragmentofoneofthose that were seen to 
fall at Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 1807; 
—two meteoric stones with shining black sur¬ 
faces fallen May 22d, 1808, at Stannern, in Mo¬ 
ravia :—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 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;—frag¬ 
ment of the meteoric stone which fell at Adare, 
in the county of Limerick, Ireland, in 1813;— 
fragment of one of those which fell Sept. 5th, 
1814, at Agen, in the Pyrenees, and one of that 
which descended at Juvenas (Ardeche), on June 
15th, 1821. 
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