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 having on his head a crimson sattin cap, laced from the top downward and round about, under that a while linnen night cap with a border, and over that a black hat with a broad rybon and ruffe-band, thick couched with a lace, and a pair of skie-coloured silk stockings, and a paire of three soaled shoes."

 

The sky-stone in New Mexico is mentioned by Humboldt, whose book has reached me since the account of it given by Gaspar de Villagra was printed in a former volume (No. 98). "In the environs of Durango, he says, is to be found insulated in the plain the enormous mass of malleable iron and nickel, which is of the identical composition of the aerolithos which fell in 1751; at Ilraschina, near Agram, in Hungary. Specimens were communicated to me by the learned director of the Tribunal de Mineria de Mexico, Don