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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 Colmar ;—one 
of the many stones which fell, July 3d, 1753, at 
Plaun, in the circle of Bechin, Bohemia, 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 Gas¬ 
cony, July 24th, 1790 ;—one of a dozen of stones 
of various weights and dimensions that fell at 
Sienna, in Tuscany, Jan. 16th, 1794;—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, which 
fell in the commune of Sales, near Villefranche, in 
the department of the Rhone, March 12th, 1798 ; 
—specimens of stones fallen near the city of Be¬ 
nares, in the East-Indies, Dec. 19th, 1798;—an 
j 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 one of those that were seen to fall at 
Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 1807;—two 
meteoric stones with shining black surfaces, fallen 
May 22d, 1808, at Stannern, in Moravia;—a 
fragment of one weighing 66 pounds, which fell 
August 5th, 1812, near Chantonhav, in theVendee. 
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