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passed by to deposit upon it beads, arrow-heads, tobacco and other 
articles, as offerings. 
This is probably one of tbe three pieces mentioned by Capt. Glass, 
but it had evidently been moved from its former location, for, accord¬ 
ing to the Indians, the Mexicans had made several ineffectual attempts 
to remove it on pack mules, but had to abandon it on account of its 
weight. 
In July, 1856, tbe meteorite was taken to San Antonio and remained 
in the possession of Major Neighbors until in the summer of 1859, 
when, at the earnest solicitation of Dr. Shumard, who was then State 
Geologist, he forwarded it to Austin and presented it to the cabinet of 
the State Geological Survey. 
It remained in the collection of the State Geological Survey until 
the burning of tbe old Capitol. It was afterwards taken out of the 
rubbish of the old building by the Commissioner of Insurance, Statis¬ 
tics and History and by him placed in the collection of the State Uni¬ 
versity, where it still remains. Since it was placed in the University 
collection it has been cut in two. The larger piece only remains in 
this collection. The smaller piece was given to some institution in 
the North, but by whom, or under what authority, I am not informed. 
Before the burning of the old Capitol this specimen was said to be 
magnetic, but it is not so now. 
It is probable that this is one of the three pieces mentioned by Capt. 
Glass, and the one mentioned by the traveler from Tennessee, before 
mentioned. 
The original weight of this piece was three hundred and twenty 
(320) pounds. 
Another piece of meteoric iron was presented to the State cabinet in 
1859, said to have been picked up in Denton county, and first carried 
to McKinney, and in December, 1859, Mr. Higby, of McKinney, took 
a small piece of it to Austin, and in the winter of the same year Dr. 
Shumard procured a piece of it, weighing about twelve pounds, from a 
blacksmith in the town of McKinney. The original piece had weighed 
about forty pounds, the blacksmith having cut off pieces from the origi¬ 
nal mass and wrought them into cane heads and various other imple¬ 
ments. 
This piece remained in the State collection until after the close of 
the war, when it was removed from the collection by some unauthor¬ 
ized person, and its present whereabouts is not known. This may 
have been the third piece mentioned by Capt. Glass, but of this there 
is no certainty. 
The exact locality where these meteorites were originally found, and 
where they were first seen by Capt. Glass, has never been accurately 
determined. 
At the time Capt. Glass was trading with the Indians there was a 
