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mass from Zacatecas, Mexico, described by Humboldt;— 
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;—a large piece of the problematical 
mass of iron discovered at Magdeburg, and which, according 
to Stromeyer’s analysis, contains (besides nickel and cobalt) 
also copper, molybdenum, and arsenik.—Of meteoric stones 
or meteorites (classed with native iron, because they all 
contain this metal, generally alloyed with nickel) the fol¬ 
lowing are placed in chronological order:—a large frag¬ 
ment of the stone which fell at Ensisheim, in Alsace, Nov. 
7th, 1492, when Emperor Maximilian, then king of the 
Romans, was on the point of engaging with the French 
army: this mass, which weighed 270 pounds, was preserv¬ 
ed in the cathedral of Ensisheim till the beginning of the 
French revolution, when it was conveyed to the public li¬ 
brary 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 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;—frag¬ 
ment 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 Benares, in the East Indies, Dec. 19th, 1798;— 
entire and broken specimens 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 j —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;—two fragments of 
the Tipperary meteorite which fell in August, 1810: it 
contains quartz globules of a green colour, owing to oxide 
of nickel;—a fragment of that of Berlanguillas, in Cata¬ 
lonia, July 8th, 1811;—a fragment of one, weighing 66 
pounds, which fell August 5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, in 
