40 
SALOON. Ensisheitn till the beginning of the French re- 
NatTh'ist. volution, when it was conveyed to the public 
library of Colmar;—one of the many stones 
which fell, July 3d, 1/53, at Plann, in the cir¬ 
cle of Bechin, Bohemia, and which contain a 
great proportion of attractable ironspecimens 
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. l6th, 179'!^;—fragment of the 
meteoric stone, weighing 56 pounds, which fell 
near Wold Cottage, in Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 
1795 ;—fragment of a stone of 20 pounds, w'hich 
fell in the commune of Sales, near Villefrancbe, 
in the department of the Rhone, March 12th, 
1798 ;—specimens of stones fallen near the city 
of Benares, in the Eas^Indies, Dec. 19 th, 1798; 
•—an entire and a broken specimen of the me¬ 
teoric stones of which a shower descended at 
i’Aigle, in the department of the Orne, April 
26 th, 1803 fragment of one of those that 
were seen to fall at Weston, in Connecticut, Dee. 
14th, I 8 O 7 . 
{Case 33.) Ores of iron continued ;—radiated 
pyrites of Werner (fer sulfure blanc Haiiy) a 
substance very subject to decomposition : to this 
belong most of the varieties of w'hat is called 
lenticular 
