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The Cape York Aerolites.
There are now to be added to the preceding list two
specimens, the"Saviksue" or Cape York aerolites (siderites) which
from their size, their unusual purity and homogeneousness of compo-
sition, and the extreme northern latitude in which they were found,
easily deserve a place at the head.
More than this these aerolites have human associations, which
increase their interest and value tenfold, for they were apparently
heaven-sent to supply one of the most urgent needs of the most n
northerly tribe of human beings on the glove, a little family of
Arctic aborigenes, numbering but a few more than two hundred souls,
literally ice-imprisoned in the gloomy depths beyond the Arctic
circle.
These huge masses of pure soft iron, sent by special dispen-
sation of Providence to a people so imprisoned and isolated that
only from Heaven itself could they obtain the precious metal, have
enabled that people to pass from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
It is difficult to decide in this instance which is the most
striking and impressive, the feelings of mystery, awe and aston-
ishment which associate themselves naturally with such bodies
the special mission character of these particular aerolites, or the
shrewd intelligence of those rude Hyperboreans which noted that
these stones were different from all the other stones in their
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