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On various masses of meteoric iron reported to have been found in Great Namaqualand and the adjacent region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. Fletcher
L. Fletcher*
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British Museum
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In November, 1836, Captain (afterwards Sir) James Edward Alexander was at Henkrees (29° S., 18° E.) on the southern side of the Orange River, South-West Africa, and sought for information as to what he might expect to find during his intended journey across Great Namaqualand. He says :—

‘A respectable old Bastaard lived at Henkrees, Balli by name; he was the owner of a thousand head of cattle, of many horses and sheep. … He also told me of great quantities of copper far up the Great Fish River, and of hills from which malleable iron could be cut out.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 63 , October 1904 , pp. 28 - 36
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1904

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