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SALOON. 
Nat. Hist, 
mar;—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 attract¬ 
able 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; 
-—two meteoric stones with shining black sur¬ 
faces fallen May 22d, 1808, at Stannern, in Mo¬ 
ravia :—two fragments of the Tipperary aerolite, 
which fell in August, 1810: it contains quartz 
globules of a green colour, owing to oxide ofnick- 
el;—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 the Vendee ;—frag¬ 
ment of the meteoric stone which fell at Adare, 
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