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a sharp stone the pieces from which the blades of their
knives were made.
The further references to this metal I give in Ross's
own words:
He (a native) was now interrogated respecting the iron with which his knife
was edged, and informed us that it was found in the mountain before mentioned;
that it was in several large masses, of which one in particular, which was harder
than the rest, was a part of the mountain; that the others were in large pieces
above ground, and not of SO hard a nature; that they cut it off with a hard
stone, and then beat it flat into pieces of the size of a sixpence, but of an oval
shape.
the place where this metal was found, which is called Sowal-
lick, was at least twenty-five miles distant
(Ross's Narrative, p. 104).
Ross endeavored by the promise of large rewards to
have the natives bring him specimens of this iron, but
without success. He did, however, obtain a specimen
of the stone which the natives used for the purpose of
cutting off the iron from the rock. This stone ap-
peared to be a basalt and was obtained from Inmallick,
a headland to the northward (Ross's Narrative, p. 112).
Of the metal Ross says
'The most important mineral production of this country is the iron already
described, which is found only at Sowallick or the Iron Mountains. The circum-
stances attending this have already been described; and it is now only necessary
to add that it has been examined by Dr. Wollaston and found to contain nickel;
and that it is probably of meteoric origin, since all the masses hitherto found in
different places, which are equally attributed to this, are distinguished by that
peculiarity" (Ross's Narrative, pp. 117-118).
Captain Sabine who accompanied Ross wrote of the matter
as follows:
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