Excerpt from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 47: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts; April, 1849 October, 1849 The strict resemblance of this specimen, both in physical and chen mical properties, to the many recorded examples of meteoric iron, leave no doubt regarding its nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.