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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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oi that dug up on the Collina di Brianza, near Villa, in the Milanese ; 
—two specimens of the mass of iron found at Lenarto in Hungary, one 
of which, being polished and treated with acid, exhibits the outlines 
of imperfect crystals * ;—a small piece of the large mass in the Capi- 
tania di Bahia, Brazil;—another, from that found in the province of 
Durango, Mexico ; —a portion of the mass from Zacatecas, Mexico* 
described by Humboldt, and presented by John Parkinson, Esq. ;—an 
Esquimaux knife and harpoon (from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° N. Long. 
66° W.), the iron of which is meteoric;—small portions of the meteoric 
iron from Texas ;—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, in which chlorine as a 
constituent has been discovered by Dr. Jackson, (for an account of 
which three masses of meteoric iron, see American Journal, vols. 34 and 
38 ; ) —some of the exfoliated iron from Buncombe and from Guild¬ 
ford, North Carolina;—a polished piece of the iron found at Otseya, 
New York (see the same Journal for 1841 ;) —a piece of that of Lock- 
port, New York, and another from that of Burlington in the same coun¬ 
ty (see the same Journal for 1844;) —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 arsenic; — 
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 Villefranehe, 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: 
presented by Sir Joseph Banks and W. Marsden, Esq—Entire 
and broken specimens of the meteoric stones of which a shower was 
seen to descend at Aigle, in the department of the Orne, April 26th, 
1803;—fragment of that of Smolensk, June 27, 1807 fragment of 
* The delineations thus produced are known by the appellation of Widmann* 
ed figures. 
