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TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
the French hunters and traders Bayou Bois d’Arc. It was at its mout 
the transportation party reached Red River with their prize. Con¬ 
tinue your glance upon the map a little south of west, to the head¬ 
waters of the river Brassos-a-Dios, and you will find the words ‘ Haywa 
Wandering.’ Through the latter you will perceive a small creek rep¬ 
resented flowing south into the Brassos. From comparing their ac¬ 
count of their journey from Red River and of their return to that 
stream, I am induced to believe that the latter creek flows from or 
near where the mass of iron was found. The place is about north 
latitude 32 degrees 20 minutes, and longitude 20 from Washington 
City.” 
Even with this minute description it is impossible to locate the place 
with any degree of certainty, as the Melish map to which he refers is 
so very inaccurate in that part of it, that nothing can be determined 
by it. 
There are several small pieces of meteoric iron in the State Geologi¬ 
cal collection, found in Wise and Montague counties. These pieces 
come from wells dug in the Trinity Sands at the base of the Cretaceous. 
With a magnet innumerable small pieces, not larger than grains of 
sand, can be taken from the sand of the wells at Decatur, Wise county, 
and at Sunset, in Montague county. 
Whether these small pieces are a part of the same fall as that of the 
larger pieces described, from the same district, has not yet been de¬ 
termined. 
