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of Walker County, Alabama, found in 1832.—A specimen of the iron 
which was seen to fall, July 31st, 1835, in Dickson County, Tennessee. 
-—A portion of that of Ashville, Buncombe County, N. Carolina, found 
and described'in 1839. — A ponderous piece of iron from Crosby’s Creek 
in the S. W. part of Cocke County, Tennessee, found 1839, (with this 
is placed a mass of graphite found in it, weighing 830 grains)_A 
smaller piece from Greenville, Green County, Tennessee, found in 1842. 
—The greater part of the mass of iron found in the Sivier County, Ten¬ 
nessee, in 1840.—Three characteristic specimens, one containing much 
graphite, of the iron from Arva, in Hungary, discovered in 1843.— 
A polished piece of the iron found in the Otsego County, New York, 
in 1845.—Mass of iron from Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, 
found in the same year.—A considerable portion of the mass of iron, 
weighing 280 pounds, found in the same year at Carthage, Smith 
County, Tennessee; as was that of Hommoney Creek, near the base 
of Pisgah Mountain, Buncombe County, N. Carolina.—A portion of 
the iron ploughed up about seven miles from Chesterville, Chester 
County, S. Carolina, described 1849.—Another of that which was 
seen to fall at Braunau, in Bohemia, July 14th, 1847. — A portion of 
that found in the same year near Lake Lsesgen, in Brandenburg — 
Also the greater portion of the mass discovered at the close of the 
same year near Murfreesboro’, Rutherford County, Tennessee. 
To these are added the following specimens of iron, the origin of 
which is still problematical, viz., that from La Buiche, Department of 
the Allier, called pseudo-volcanic steel; that of Gross-Kamsdorf, 
Saxony; that of Collina di Brianza, in the Milanese; also, the iron 
discovered at Magdeburg, and which, according to Stromeyer’s analysis, 
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. 
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 :— 
Case 1*. A large fragment of the stone which fell at Ensisheim, 
in Alsace, Nov. 7th, 1492, when Emperor Maximilian, 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 revolution, when it was 
conveyed to the public library of Colmar.—Meteoric stone which fell 
at Reichstadt in Bohemia, June 22nd, 1723.—One of the stones 
which fell, July 3rd, 1753, at Plan, in the circle of Bechin, Bo¬ 
hemia, and which contain a great proportion of attractable iron.— 
Portion of a stone which fell at Maurkirchen in Bavaria, Nov. 20th, 
1768.—A meteorite which fell at Bobric, government of Charkow, 
Ucraine, Oct. 1st, 1787. —Specimens of those that were seen to fall 
at Barbotan, at Roquefort, and at Juliac, in the Landes of Gas¬ 
cony, July 24th, 1790.—One of a dozen stones, of various weights 
and dimensions, that fell at Sienna, in Tuscany, June 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 Villefrancbe, in the department of the Rhone, March 
