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Show 2.", 1H87, aii it was nearly five months later o;oro it was finally landed at the little railroad depot in tho wilderness wilder-ness from wuwice it was transported to Kio Janeiro. During tho four months in which it was being ptil.'cil, pushed and rolled by man anil mule power through tho track-lc"-s forests, over steep mountains and sandy wastes, it crossed over one hundred hun-dred streams of all hizes, was taken over one mountain chain 8,700 feet in height, besides many smaller elevations. All of this in li region where tho best roads are only mule paths. A better idea of tho dillicullies theso scientists encountered in securing their prize may bo had from knowledge of the fact that atotalt.f 17J clays was consumed in moving it from IVndogo creek to tho railway station, a distance of only 71 miles. The pluck and energy exhibited by these gentlemen in moving this gigantic gi-gantic airstone to their national museum is a ('virions commentary on t he scientific ideas of tho early part of the century, whic h denied the existence of Btich bodies bod-ies as aerolites. St. Louis Republic. A Morstor Aerolite. In T.Tay, 1S8, the Nationitl musenm of Brazil caino into inal possession of one ; cf tho largest meteorites or aerolittsa that, was ever lenown to fall upon either : r gii'ctiou of the American continents. The r"l" noble siecimen weighs 11.800 pounds f nd originally laid imbedded in the proimd near EeniK-go creek, in one of the moat inaccessible portions of Brazil. The cost of traiis)orting it from the place where it first struck American soil ! was defrayed by Baron Greahy. The i eun'ej' of the route and preliminary arrangements ar-rangements occupied three months; its journey to the capital commenced .Nov. j |