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ANALYSES OF ROCKS, IT. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
[BULL. 168. 
2. HAMBLEN COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 
Mass of about half and half stone and iron found about 6 miles 
WSW. of Morristown. Analyzed by L. G. Eakins, and described in 
Bull. 113, p. 61. 
A. The nickel-iron. 
B. The part of the stony portion soluble in hydrochloric acid ; 37.63 
per cent, recalculated to 100, with sulphur deducted. 
C. Insoluble part of the stony portion; 62.10 per cent, recalculated 
to 100. 
A petrographic description of this meteorite is given by Merrill in 
Amer. Journ. Sci., 4th series, vol. 2, p. 149, together with an analysis 
of the feldspar. He finds it to contain, in addition to the nickel-iron, 
enstatite, diallage, anorthite, olivine or monticellite, oldhamite or sec- 
ondary gypsum derived from oldhamite, lawrenceite, troilite, and 
schreibersite. 
A. 
B. 
c. 
Fe 
Ni 
90.92 
7.71 
.80 
trace 
.19 
.04 
Si0 2 ... 
45.61 
22.62 
50.67 
14.89 
1.32 
10. 55 
A1 2 3 
Co 
Cr 2 3 
Cu 
FeO 
11.73 
1.06 
P 
NiO 
S 
MnO 
.76 
3.61 
17.98 
.03 
.19 
CaO 
14.09 
3.64 
99.66 
MgO 
K 2 
Na 2 
P,0, 
1.25 
S 
100. 00 
100. 00 
