Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
In 1885 a trustworthy Persian agent, through whom various antique objects had been already acquired for the British Museum, offered for sale to its authorities a so-called thunderbolt, weighing 131 lbs. (59.4 kilograms), and submitted at the same time the following translation of a Persian letter from his Excellency Hajee Ahmed Khane Sarteep, Ex-Governor- General of Bunder Abbas, Persian Gulf, and Grand Vizier of Muscat:—
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page 182 note 3 Annal. der Chtm. und Pharm, 1856, Vol. XCVII p. 385.
page 182 note 4 Zeitsch. d. deuttch. geol. Gesell., 1864, Vol. XVI. p. 356.