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 The mass of pure iron found in the nteriorinterior [sic] of the Cape Colony, which Mr. Barrow supposes to have been the thick part of a ship's anchor, carried there from the coast by the Kaffers, is far more probably a sky—stone. It is remarkable that Mr. Barrow should be so well satisfied with his solution of the difficulty as to apply it in another instance, where the aerial origin of the mass appears certain. "We were told (he says,) that in the neighbourhood of the Knysua, another large mass of native iron had been discovered, similar to that which I mentioned to have seen in the plains of the Zuure Veldt, and which I then supposed the Kaffers to have carried thither from the sea shore. I paid little attention to the report at that time; but since my return to the Cape, the discovery of a third mass, in an extraordinary situation, the very summit of Table Mountain,