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of the native 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 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 sacred 
relic : the mass originally weighed about 1,680 
pounds ;—a piece of the large mass from Ellen- 
bogen, in Bohemia, and another of that found on 
Coliina di Brianza, in Milan ;—a small piece of 
the large mass in the Capitania di Bahia, Brasil; 
—-a 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. 
Of meteoric stones (classed with native iron, be¬ 
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, 
e 2 1753, 
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