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May 27, 1894, the great brown heaven born mass, rudely awakened
from its winter sleep, found for the first time in its cycles of
the
existence with eyes of a white man gazing upon it. I had found at
last the object which had baffled more or less energetic and con-
t inuous efforts for seventy-six years. In addition to its thick
blanket of snow the aerolite was completely coated with a half inch
thick covering of ice.
Seen from above it was of an irregular rounded trapezoidal
shape, with a circumference of eleven feet, a maximum length of
four feet and three inches, and a maximum width of three feet and
three inches. The highest part of the stone above ground was
fifteen inches. Its average thickness was apparently one and a
half feet, but was difficult to determine at this season. The
weight was estimated at not less than five thousand, five hundred
pounds and might be double that depending upon the penetration of
the mass into the earth. It was surrounded and partly covered by
numerous fragments of fine grained blue trap rock, portions of wave
worn boulders and cobbles, brought here by the natives on their
sledges from far up the Smith Sound Coast for the purpose of de-
taching flakes of the metal. Al the other rock of the vicinity is
gneissose.
Telikoteenah told me how the ancient knives of his people
used to be made, namely, by inserting several small flattened
pieces of this iron in a bone or ivory back. Then with a piece of
trap lying near he showed me how the flakes of iron were detached
from the aerolite. Nothing could have been more interesting, than
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