10 L 
them. The principal contents of the cases (except those 
following No. 54, and likewise 
Case 1, not being completely arranged when this 
edition of the Synopsis went to press), are as follows: 
Case 2 contains native iron, copper, bismuth, and 
silver. Of the first of these, found in insulated masses, 
and disseminated in meteoric stones, the following spe¬ 
cimens are deposited :— native iron from Gross-kams- 
dorf in Saxony ;—two small polished pieces of the mass 
found in Southern Africa, which weighed about 250 
pounds, and is now in the cabinet of Haarlem ;—frag¬ 
ment of the iron from Senegal:—specimens of the na¬ 
tive iron from Otumpa, in the Gran Chaco Gualamba, 
in South America, described by Don Rubin de Celis, 
who estimated the weight of the mass to be about 300 
quintals, or 15 tons *;—a large piece detached from the 
celebrated mass of Siberian native iron, which was dis¬ 
covered by Pallas on the summit of a hill between 
Abakansk and Belskoi Ostrog on the banks of the Jeni- 
sey, where it was considered by the Tartars as a sacred 
relic: the mass originally weighed about 1680 pounds; 
—iron from Atacama;—a piece of the large mass from 
Ellenbogen, in Bohemia, and another of that found on 
Collina di Brianza, in Milan ;—a small piece of the 
large mass in the Capitania di Bahia, Brazil;—a spe¬ 
cimen detached from the large mass of iron preserved 
at Aix-la-Chapelle ;—an Esquimaux knife and harpoon 
(from Davis’s Straits, Lat. 76° N. Long. 66° W.), the 
iron of which is meteoric;—native iron from Lenarto, 
Hungary;—from the province of Durango, Mexico.— 
Of meteoric stones , (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 Al¬ 
sace, Nov. 7th, 1492, in the presence of the Emperor 
* The mass of iron on the upper landing-place of the staircase, sent 
from Buenos Ayres, is supposed to be part of that of Otumpu: it 
weighs 1400 pounds. 
LONG 
GALLERY. 
Nat. Hist. 
Maximilian, 
