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BULLETIN
OF THE
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Vol. XXVI
1894.
No. 4
THE CAPE YORK IRONSTONE.
BY R. E. PEARY, C.E., U. S. N.
There is always a peculiar interest attaching to those
strange bodies, meteors, which, issuing out of the in-
finite abyss of universal space, fall upon the earth with
loud detonations, accompanied by flashes or trails of
brilliant light. When, one of these visitors from far off
are
space happens to be a mass of pure soft iron, apparently
urgent
heaven-sent to supply one of the most indispensable needs
of the most northerly human beings on the globe-a
tribe of isolated Arctic aborigines numbering only a
little over two hundred souls literally ice-imprisoned in
the gloomy depths beyond the Arctic Circle-and when
the existence of such a mass has been a matter of his-
toric or legendary knowledge since the discovery of the
tribe over three-quarters of a century ago, while
their
precise location has been unknown, the interest is in-
creased tenfold.
meleorites
Such is the interest attaching to the meteor iron stone
of Cape York, which for unknown years furnished the
447
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