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LONG 
GALLERY. 
Nat. Hist. 
electro-positive native metals: iron, copper, bismuth, 
lead, silver, mercury, palladium, platinum, osmium and 
gold. 
Case 1. Of native iron , found in insulated masses, 
and disseminated in meteoric stones, the following spe¬ 
cimens are deposited:— native iron from Gross-kams- 
dorf in Saxony;—two small polished pieces of the mass 
found in Southern Africa, which weighed about 250 
pounds, and is now in the cabinet of Haarlem ;—frag¬ 
ment of the iron from Senegal:—specimens of the na¬ 
tive iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Chaco Gualamba, 
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 dis¬ 
covered by Pallas on the summit of a hill between 
Abakansk and Belskoi Ostrog on the banks of the Jeni- 
sey, where it was considered by the Tartars as a sacred 
relic: the mass originally weighed about 1680 pounds; 
—a mass of iron from Atacama, resembling that of 
Siberia, and also containing much of the olivine-like sub¬ 
stance within its cells ;—a piece of the large mass from 
Ellenbogen, in Bohemia, and another of that found on 
the Collina di Brianza, in the Milanese ;—two specimens 
of the mass of iron found at Lenarto in Hungary, one 
of which, being polished and treated w T ith acid, exhibits 
the outlines of imperfect crystals ;—a small piece of 
the large mass in the Capitania di Bahia, Brazil;— 
another, from that found in the province of Durango, 
Mexicoa specimen detached from the large mass of 
iron preserved at Aix-la-Chapelle;—an Esquimaux 
knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° N. 
Long. 66° W.), the iron of which is meteoric;—a large 
piece of the problematical iron lately found at Mag¬ 
deburg, and which, according to Stromeyer’s analysis, 
* The mass of iron on the upper landing-place of the staircase, sent 
from Buenos Ayres, is supposed to be part of that of Otumpa: it 
weighs 1400 pounds. 
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