On a mass of Meteoric Iron from the neighbourhood of Caperr, Rio Senguerr, Patagonia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Extract
In the month of September, 1869, Captain Musters, who was st that time making an expedition through Patagonia, had his attention called to a heavy mass of material which he took to be marble. In the account of his journey he afterwards wrote (from memory) as follows:—
"There is in this place, which is called by the Indians Amakaken, a large spherical boulder of marble, which it is the custom of the Indians to try their strength by lifting. Casimiro informed me that this stone had oeen there for many years, and the custom was very old. It was so large and heavy that I was just able to grasp it with both arms and raise it to the level of my knees, but some of the Indians managed to lift it to their shoulders."
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 12 , Issue 56 , October 1899 , pp. 167 - 170
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1899
References
page 167 note 1 At Home with the Patagonians. By George Chaworth Musters. London 1871, p. 87.
page 167 note 2 Ibid. p. 46.
page 167 note 3 Ibid. pp. xix, xx.
page 170 note 1 Mineralogical Magazine, 1887, Vol. VII, p 124.
page 170 note 2 Ibid. 1859, Vol. VIII, p. 263
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