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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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of 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 ciystals * ; — a small piece of the large mass in the Capi- 
tania di Bahia, Brazil; — another, from that found in the province of 
Durango, IMexico;— a portion of the mass from Zacatecas, Mexico, 
described by Humboldt, and presented by John Parkinson, Esq.; — an 
Esquimaux knife and haiq)oon (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-v/est 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, AUier 
Department; — a large piece of the problematical mass of iron discovered 
at IMagdeburg, and which, according to Stromeyer’s analysis, contains 
(besides nickel and cobalt) also copper, molybdenum, and arsenic; — 
a specimen detached from the lai-ge mass of iron found and preserved at 
Aix-la-Chapelle. 
Of meteoric stones or meteorites (classed with native iron, because 
thev 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, neai- Villefranche, 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. iMarsden, 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 thu produced are kno wn by the appellation of lYidmann- 
sted figures. 
