On a Meteoric Iron seen to fall in the District of Nejed, Central Arabia, in the Year 1863

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  • LFL. Fletcher
    L. Fletcher
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Abstract
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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