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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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piece of the large mass in the Capitania di Bahia, Brazil;—another, 
from that found in the province of Durango, Mexico ;—a portion of 
the mass from Zacatecas, Mexico, described by Humboldt;—an Esqui¬ 
maux knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° N. Long. 
66° W. ), the iron of which is meteoric;—two ponderous pieces of iron, 
the one from Crossby’s Creek, in the south-west part of Cocke County; 
the other from Sivier County, Tenessee, together with a slab cut from 
another mass found at Clayborn, Alabama, United States, (for an ac¬ 
count of which three masses of meteoric iron, see American Journal, vols. 
34 and 38 ;)—some small portions of the meteoric iron from Texas 
some of the exfoliated iron from Buncombe and from Guildford, North 
Carolina;—a polished piece of the iron found at Otseya, New York (see 
American Journal of Science for 1841);—a portion of the mass, weigh¬ 
ing upwards of 3300 pounds, found at Bitsburg in the Treves territory, 
but which, from ignorance, was committed to the smelting furnace ;— 
portion of the so-called pseudo-volcanic steel, from la Buiche, Allier 
Department ;—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;—- 
a specimen detached from the large mass of iron found and preserved at 
Aix-la-Chapelle. 
Of meteoric stones or meteorites (classed with native iron, because 
they all contain this metal, generally 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, when Emperor Maximi¬ 
lian, then king of the Romans, was on the point of engaging with the 
French army : this mass, which weighed 270 pounds, was preserved 
in the cathedral of Ensisheim till the beginning of the French revo¬ 
lution, when it was conveyed to the public library of Colmar ;—one of 
the many stones which fell, July 3rd, 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 Barbotan, at Roque¬ 
fort, 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 Si¬ 
enna, in Tuscany, Jan. 16th, 1794;—the meteoric stone, weighing 56 
pounds, which fell near Wold Cottage, in the parish of Thwing, East 
Riding, Yorkshire, Dec. 13th, 1795;—fragment 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 Ome, April 26th, 1803; 
-—fragment of that of Smolensk, June 27, 1807 ;—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 May22d, 
1808, at Stannem, in Moravia;—two fragments of the Tipperary me¬ 
teorite which fell in August, 1810: it contains quartz globules of a 
green colour, owing to oxide of nickel;—a fragment of that of Ber- 
languillas, in Catalonia, July 8th, 1811;—a fragment of one, weighing 
66 pounds, which fell August 5th, 1812, near Chantonnay, in the Ven¬ 
dee ;—fragment of the meteoric stone which fell at Adare, in the 
county of Limerick, Ireland, in 1813 fragment of one of those which 
