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aerolites, because they have fallen from the at¬ 
mosphere, or meteoric stones, because they are 
by some supposed to be depositions from meteors. 
The specimens of the former are,—native iron 
from Grosskamsdorf, in Saxony ;—two smaf! 
polished pieces of the mass found in Southern 
Africa, which weighed about 250 pounds, and is 
now in the cabinet of Haarlem ;—fragment of 
the iron from Senegal ; —specimens of the na¬ 
tive iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Cbseo Gua- 
lamba, 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 detached 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 sa- 
cred relic: the mass originally weighed about 
1,680 pounds.—Of meteoric stones (classed with 
native iron, because they all contain this metal, 
alloyed with nickel) the following are deposited t 
—two small fragments of the stone which fell at 
Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. yth, 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 v.eigh- 
ed 270 pounds, was preserved in the cathedral of 
L 2 Ensisheim 
SAt/iON'. 
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