gallery.] natural history. (Minerals.) 57 
Empress Maria Theresa.—Fragment of the iron from the Upper 
Senegal, in Africa, discovered between the years 1760 and 1770. 
—A large piece detached from the celebrated mass of Siberian native 
iron, which was discovered in 1772, by Pallas, on the summit of 
a mountain between Abakansk and Belskoi Ostrog, on the banks of the 
Jenisey, where it was considered by the Tartars as a sacred relic : the 
mass, which originally weighed about 1680 pounds, is in the Museum of 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, by whom our speci¬ 
men was presented. — Specimens of the native iron from Otumpa, in the 
Gran Chaco Gualamba, in South America, found, in 1783, by Don 
Rubin de Celis, who estimated the weight of the mass to be about 300 
quintals, or 15 tons*.—A large specimen of the Brazilian iron, found 
at the Bemdego rivulet, Capitania of Bahia, in 1784, described in-1816. 
— Some of the Mexican meteoric iron supposed to be from that of Xiqui- 
pilco, first brought into notice in 1784.—A large piece (presented by 
John Parkinson, Esq.) of the iron of Zacatecas, Mexico, known, time 
out of mind, but first described in 1792; and a small one of that found 
in the province of Durango, described by Baron Alexander von Hum¬ 
boldt (this has by some been confounded with that of the preceding 
locality).—Two pieces of the Cape meteoric iron, found in 1793, and 
first made known in Barrow’s Travels in Southern Africa: the mass is now 
in the cabinet of Haarlem.—A portion of the mass, originally weighing 
upwards of 3300 pounds, found at Bitburg, in the Eifel, N. of Treves, in 
1805, but which, from ignorance, was committed to the smelting 
furnace.—A portion of the mass from Texas (Red River), found 1808, 
described 1845.—Three specimens of iron from Rasgata, N. E. of Santa 
Fe de Bogota, South America; found in 1810, and described about 24 
years afterwards. — A piece from the large mass (originally weighing 191 
pounds, of which upwards of two-thirds came to the Imperial Collection 
at Vienna) of the iron of Elbogen, near Carlsbad in Bohemia, where 
from time immemorial it had been known by the popular and legendary 
appellation of the Enchanted Burgrave (der verwunschte Burggraf); its 
meteoric origin ascertained in 1811. — Small portions of the meteoric 
iron from Texas, known to the scientific world since 1814. —Two speci¬ 
mens of the mass of iron found at Lenarto in Hungary, in 1814, one 
of w hich, being polished and treated wdth acid, exhibits the outlines of 
imperfect crystals +. — A mass of iron from Lockport, New York ; found 
in 1818, described in 1845.—A specimen of the iron from Burlington, 
in the Otsego County, New York, found in 1819. — An Esquimaux 
knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° 12' N., Long. 53°) 
the iron of which is meteoric, (mentioned in Capt. Ross’s voyage, 
1819, and presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty).— 
Small portions of the iron from Guildford County, North Carolina, dis¬ 
covered in 1820.—A mass of iron from the province of Atacama, re¬ 
public of Bolivia, resembling that of Siberia, and, like it, containing 
much of an olivine-like substance wfithin its cells; described in 1827, 
and presented by Sir Woodbine Parish.—A mass from the N.E. corner 
* The large mass of iron placed against the wall under the window, was sent 
from Buenos Ayres, in 1826, by Mr. (since Sir Woodbine) Parish ; it is supposed 
to be part of that of Otumpa, described by Rubin de Celis in the Philos. Trans, 
for 1783: its weight 1400 pounds. Presented by Sir Humphry Davy and Sir 
Woodbine Parish. 
t The delineations thus produced are known by the appellation of W idmann» 
sted figures. 
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