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The smallest meteorite was 96' from the larger one and
21' lower. The distance from the shore being the same.
There is a fourth mass more to the eastward, farther in-
land and higher up though no one of the. tribe now living has seen
visited
it's its approximate location is known and it is said to be much
larger than either of the other three; the old men of the tribe
comparing the visible portion of it with one of their tupics.
To the eye the appearance of the metal composing the three
meteorites seems the same; a dense, tough soft iron or mild steel
with silvery lustee and resonant as a bell. But that there is a
pronounced difference in the amiability of the metal in the three
masses is shown conclusively not only by the unvarying statements
of the natives but by the great pile 60 yards in circumference of
broken trap boulders surrounding the 6000 1b meteorite while scarce
ly a score of pieces were scattered about the smallest one and none
whatever in the vicinity of the largest. Half excavated half con-
structed among the gneissose rocks in the vicinity of the softest
stone were numerous "Kang-mah" or small roofless stone huts occu-
pied by the natives during the mining season. This mass is the
one from which all of the ancient iron supply of this people was
obtained, and the supposed statements of the natives to the members
of Capt. Ross's Expedition, that one mass was composed largely of
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