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NATURAL HISTORY. (Minerals.) 
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1760—1770. Iron from the right shore of the Upper Senegal, in 
Africa, noticed by Golberry, and other travellers about that period. 
1772. A piece detached from the mass which was discovered in that 
year by Pallas, on the summit of a mountain between Abakansk and 
Belskoi Osfrog, on the banks of the Jenisey, where it was con¬ 
sidered by the Tartars as a sacred relic : original weight about 1680 
pounds; (presented by the Museum of the Imperial Academy of 
Sciences of St. Petersburg.) 
1783. Iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Chaco Gualamba, in South 
America, found by Don Rubin de Celis, who estimated the weight 
of the mass to be about 300 quintals, or 15 tons *. 
1784. Do. found in that year at the Bemdego rivulet, Capitania 
of Bahia, described in Philos. Trans, for 1816, (weight of the re¬ 
maining mass calculated by Martius to be upwards of 17,300 lbs.) 
-- Meteoric iron from Xiquipilco, in Mexico, first brought into 
notice in 1784. 
1792. A large piece of the iron from Zacatecas, Mexico ; first de¬ 
scribed in that year; (presented by John Parkinson, Esq.) 
- A small one of that found in the province of Durango, described 
by Baron A. Humboldt; (it has by some been confounded with that 
of the preceding locality.) 
1793. Iron, from the Cape of Good Hope, found in that year, and first 
made known in Barrow’s Travels in Southern Africa, 1801 : (the 
mass is now T in the cabinet of Haarlem.) 
1805. A small portion of the mass, originally weighing upwards of 
3300 lbs.,dug up at Bitburg, in the Eifel, near Treves, but which, 
from ignorance, was committed to the smelting furnace. 
- A large piece of the same having been thus exposed to the action 
of the fire. 
1808. Iron from Texas (Red River), described 1845. For an account 
of this, and of most of the American meteorites, see several numbers 
of Silliman’s American Journal, between 1845 and 1850. 
1810. Three specimens of the iron from Rasgata, N.E. of Santa Fe 
de Bogota, S. America ; described about 24 years after its discovery. 
1811. A piece from the mass (originally weighing 191 lbs., 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 knowm by the popular and legendary appel¬ 
lation of the Enchanted Burgrave (der verw 7 iinschte Burggraf). 
1814. In December. Two specimens of the iron found at Lenarto 
in the Serosh Comitate, Hungary, one of wdiich, being polished and 
treated with acid, exhibits the outlines of imperfect crystalsf. 
1818. Part of the mass of iron found in that year at Lockport, 
New York, and described in 1845. 
1819. Part of that found at Burlington, in the Otsego County, New 
York ; described in 1844. 
* 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 lbs. Presented by Sir Humphry Davy and Sir 
Woodbine Parish. 
f The delineations thus produced are known by the appellation of Widmann- 
sted figures; they are observable in various polished specimens here deposited. 
