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of the native iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Chaco 
Giialamba, 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 
Collina 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 Aixda-chapelle ;—an Esquimaux 
knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76 
I N. Long. 66 W.), the iron of which is meteoric ; 
I native iron from Lenarto, Hungary;—from the 
province of Durango, Mexico. Of meteoric stones 
I (classed with native iron, because they all con- 
I tain this metal alloyed with nickel), the follow- 
1 ing are placed in chronological order:—a large 
I fragment of the stone which fell atEnsisheim, in 
! Alsace, Nov. 7 th, 1492, in the presence of the 
! Emperor Maximilian, then king of the Romans, 
I when on the point of engaging with the French 
I army : this mass, which weighed 270 pounds, 
I was preserved in the cathedral of Ensisheim till 
I the beginning of the French revolution, when it 
was conveyed to the public library of Colmar;— 
E 2 one 
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