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natural history. (Minerals.) 
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1819. An Esquimaux knife and harpoon (fromDavis’s Straits, Lat. 76° 
12' N., Long. 53°) the iron of which is meteoric; (mentioned in 
Captain Ross’s voyage, 1819, and presented by the Lords Commis¬ 
sioners of the Admiralty.) 
1820. Small portions of the iron from Guildford County, North Caro¬ 
lina, discovered in that year ; described 1841. 
1827. A mass from the province of Atacama, republic of Bolivia, 
containing much of an olivine-like substance within its cells; (pre¬ 
sented by Sir Woodbine Parish.) 
-- Another large specimen of the same, polished. 
1832. A mass discovered in Walker County, Alabama, in that year; 
described in 1841. 
1835. July 31st. A specimen of the iron which .was then seen to fall 
in Dickson County, Tennessee ; described 1845. 
1839. A portion of that of Ashville, Buncombe County, N. Carolina, 
described in that year. 
- A ponderous mass of iron from Cosbj^’s Creek in the 'S. W. part 
of Cocke County, Tennessee, described 1840 (with which is placed 
a mass of graphite found in it, weighing 3 830 grains). 
1840. The greater part of another large mass of iron found in the Sivier 
County, of the same State, and nearly at. the same time. 
1842. A portion of that of Babb’s Mill, Green Co., in the same state, 
described in 1845. 
1843. Iron from Arva, in Hungary (three characteristic specimens, 
one containing much graphite,) discovered in that year. 
1845. A portion of that from Hommoney Creek, near the base of 
Pisgah Mountain, Buncombe Co., N. Carolina; described 1846, 
(resembling the Atacama iron.) 
1846. Mass of iron from Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, 
described in the same year. 
*- A considerable portion of the mass, weighing 280 lbs., found 
in the same year at Carthage, Smith Co., Tenn. ; described 1846. 
1847. July 14th. Specimen of the iron winch was then seen to fall, at 
Braunau, in Bohemia. 
- A portion of that discovered near Lake Lsesgen, in Branden¬ 
burg ; described in the same year. 
-- A great portion of the mass discovered at the close of the 
same year near Murfreesboro’, Rutherford Co., Tennessee. 
1849. A portion of the iron ploughed up in that year about seven 
miles from Chesterville, Chester County, S. Carolina. 
1850. A portion of the mass found on Ruff’s Mountain, Newberry 
district, S. Carolina, described in the same year. 
To these are added the following specimens of Iron, the origin of 
which is still problematical, viz., that from La Buiche, Department of 
the Ailier, called pseudo-volcanic steel; that of Gross-Kamsdorf, in 
Saxony; that of Collina di Brianza, in the Milanese; also, the iron 
discovered at Magdeburg, and w’hich, according to Stromeyer’s ana¬ 
lysis, contains (besides nickel and cobalt) copper, molybdenum, and 
arsenic ; and a specimen detached from the large mass of iron found 
and still preserved at Aix-la-Chapelle. 
Case 1*. Of meteoric stones or meteorites , (classed with native iron, 
because they all contain this metal, chiefly alloyed with nickel,) the 
