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aerolitic nickel-steel alloy, the composition being about 92 % of
5.11
iron and 8% of nickel. Similar, however, as the two are in
appearance, I am convinced that there is a pronounced difference
in the amiability of the metal; the larger being the softer. The
statements of the natives are unvarying on this point, and their
agos
statements are borne out by the huge pile of broken trap COD-
pouse
bles surrounding the large aerolite, while scarcely a score of
Revit
these stones was scattered about the smaller one.
It seems almost certain that both of these masses are
fragments of the same celestial body. If this be so, the differ-
08
ence in hardness on which the Eskimos insist, is probably due to a
process of tempering, variations in which were caused by the dif-
ference in size of the two masses and the resultant differing
temperatures, when at the end of their descent, they plunged into
the snow and ice.
That there are additional specimens unknown to the
natives I doubt, as nothing escapes the Eskimo eye, and in the
ages that this tribe has lived in its contracted Arctic prison,
there is not a stone on shore, or mountain side, or summit, that
has not been pressed by the foot of a fur clad hunter, and noted by
his quick eye.
The locality of these aerolites is near the head of one
of the numerous bays which indent the northern shore of that
great icy fastness Melville Bay. This bay terminates in a little
rectangular cove, walled by a series of hills 300 to 600 ft. high.
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