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ice floes ,using centuries ago a heaven invented alloy (nickel
steel) which all our own boasted civilization and enlightenment
has only recently devised, is a striking one.
In looking at these masses too, bewildering thoughts
arise as to their origin. The theory that they are the products
of some furious volcanic eruption past or recent, is negatived by
the character of the alloy (nickel steel) which to the best of our
knowledge exists nowhere in our globe, and because if nickel steel
should be so erupted, why not gold or silver, or tin, or copper or
lead?
Are they then the fragments of some ruined or disrupted
other world and, if so, are there other similar worlds or comets
or asteroids or bodies of some sort composed entirely of iron,
still intact and whirling through space? There seems reason for
thinking so in looking at these masses and yet how could the in-
habitants manage with compasses and electrical currents upon a
planet composed of nickel iron? And, to use the words of a funny
writer on an English paper, "What would it be like to rush through
space upon a ferruginous ball with no potato patch or turnip
ground softer than Bessemer steel?"
The theory of Eastman and Miller seems to be more plaus-
ible; that these and similar masses of iron, (the siderites of the
text books) were originally nodules scattered through the unoxyi-
dized basic rock core of a shattered planet or planets, and that
when fragments of these hurtling ruins enter the earth's atmos-
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