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saloon, qj' meteoric stones (classed with native iron, be- 
Nat. hist, cause they all contain this metal alloyed with 
nickel,) the following are placed in chronological 
order :—a large fragment of the stone which fell 
• at Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. 7th, 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 weighed 270 
pounds, was preserved in the cathedral of Ensis¬ 
heim till the beginning of the French revolution, 
when it was conveyed to the public library of Col¬ 
mar ;—one of the many stones which fell, July 3d, 
1/53, at Plaun, in the circle of Bechin, Bohemia, 
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and which contain a great proportion of attracta¬ 
ble iron ; specimens 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. 16th, 1794 :—frag¬ 
ment 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 Ville- 
franche, in the department of the Rhone, March 
12th, 1798 ;—specimens of stones fallen near the 
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 ;—fragment of one of those that were seen to 
fall at Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14th, 1807; 
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