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The entire surface in the vicinity of both these meteor$
is thickly covered with gnaissose boulders of all sizes.
The third meteorite unlike the others is located on a
surface comparatively free from stones, and was almost entirely
buried in the soil. Only a sort of dorsal fin about 2' high and
wide and 5' long projecting through the turf, the color
this fin
of was a deep rich brown "the original meteoric markings,
pittings and three lines of streations were sharp and distinct.
The alleged greater hardness of the metal has protected
this mass from the attacks of the natives. On the upper surface
mass
of the flat portion of the underground were numbers of rust blisters
and scales, whether due to the greater amount of moisture in the
ground at this place or to a difference in the composition of this
meteorite as compared with the other two, was not determined.
The elevation of this meteorite was 66' above the ice foot and
its distance from the shore 204 I . The larger of the other two
masses was 101.5 above the ice foot and 1611' distant from it.
of this distance 407' was over gneissose boulders of all dimensions
and the remaining 1204' along a bank of deep snow. Between the
shore and the harbor floe was a lead 100' wide and from the edge 0
of the floe to the ship the distance was 5478' making a total
distance of 1.36 miles that these two stones were moved.
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