New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-21


enough can avail to an almost unlimited extent
of geocentric heat and geogonic pressure. The
crux to produce the same results without
the same facilities. Sufficient heat indeed
at hand: the needful pressure was less easily
evoked But here a certain anomaly in the be-
havior of cooling iron came to the rescue. Pure
iron follows the common rule or contraction in
solidifying; but iron saturated with carbon ex-
pands, after the manner OF water turning INTO
Ice Silver shows the same peculiarly. Now.
by suddenly refrigerating a mass OF carpurlZed
iron a hard superficial shell would obviously be
formed powerfully constructing the Interior, and
hindering it's natural expansion frost-burst
water pipes but too Familiarity exemplify the all
but irresistible strength Of the molecular effort
to get room under analogous circumstances Inc
tremendous interior pressure created by the re-
straint imposed upon it in NJ. Moissans cruel
bles suflices to liquefy the carbon contained In
them, and capitalization ensures
That stores Of native iron exist deep down IN
the earth's crust has been almost certified by
recent observations. The great nickelferouS
blocks at Ovifak, the shore OF Disko Island,
to which a cosmc origin was attributed by Nor.
denskiold their dscOverer, are now admitted
to be terrestrial ejecta; and their character IL
probably shared by certain other supposed me-
teorites Such masses usually II not invariably.
contain a notable ingredient Of carbon and mus
several lines Of evidence converge TOWARD tne
inference that the transformation achieVed IN
NJ Moissans crucibles Is substantially tne safie
that occurred on a relatively. vast scale beneath
every diamentiferous region in the world IL
was most likely effected with extreme slowness
mentary constrcton-but the secular pressure
due to miles of everything rock, beneath whicn
the gross material Of inchoate gems ADVANCED
reluctantly. as 1t were, along the steep rohu u
perfection They should. however have re-
m aimed buried in the "unfathomed caves.
where they were elaborated had not volcanic
action supervcned.
METEORS LIKE SUBTERRANEAN ROCK
There is another source of diamonds besides
fiery underground pools and electricahy hea'eu
Tt,a orviy frOn
on September % 1886 a rocky mass fell from
the sky at Novy Urej. in the Government OF
Penza Siberia Composed Of Divine and orons-
ite with a carbonaceous admixture, IL snares
tho uncommon meteorological character or KIM
berite" Nor was it in this respect exceptional
The peculiarties Of the blue ground nave
heen adyerted to by many experts as distinctly
meteorc And meteorites are unanimous IN
claiming affinity with rocks OF profoundiy SUD.
terranean origin. The more deeply the crust OF
the earth is penetrated, in fact, the closer the
resemblance Is seen to be. Carbon in some shape
occurs In most Of them-combned or uncom-
bined. "occluded" gas as an anonymous or
aminated solid. In the crystalline shape Its cos
mic occurrence was unsupported until NM Jero-
feieK and Latchinoff pried into the recesses OF
the Penza aerolite. One-tenth OF its weight OF
four pounds proved to be true diamond Inc uls.
coyery has been amply confirmed transparent
crystals Of very minute size. but approving
themselves as of the requisite quality py every
imaginable criterion. were later identihed by
Wenschenk in a specimen pumped down from
some distant world at Ava, in Hungary, IN 1910:
and the "cIiftonte'' of the Youndegin and Cros-
ley's Greek meteoritesmAustrailan 0otn.oe
scribed by Fletcher in 1887 novel kind OK
graphic carbon was probably diamond trans
formed by heat
CANYON DIABLO IRON NOT METEORIc.
Specimens Of the Canyon Diablo iron. discov-
cred in 1891 in Arizona and containing unmis-
taxable diamonds, were in request Tor miner
illogical cabinets all the world and since
many tons of it lay derelict round the base OF
Sunset Knoll. they were disseminated without
stint Closer inspections OF the locality, now
ever, occasiOned miSgivings as TO their aeriA
descent In blocks and broken pieces they
strew an area about five miles across. In the
midst Of which kind Of walled orater-Sunset
feet above the plain The rampant Is not OF
igneous construction; it s built out OF the focal
sandstones and limestones. uplifted into sheer
precipices by some strange CONFUSION. Ihat
the metallic wreckage has more than casual
relation to the crater is palpably evident; nor
is the view even plausible that they are the
spray of meteoric wave, which mere struck
the earth in some past millennium-the SPIN
tiers of a formidable mass. the impact Of which
scooped out circus three-quarters or a mile IN
diameter. to a depth of six hundred feet. Clear
ly indeed the thrust upward, not down.
ward the strata were not battered in from with
out but upheaved by some bursting power from
within. Sunset Knoll is literally crater OF
elevation" The similar structure OF the Kim
berly pipes at once recurs TO the mind, and the
analogy is undoubtedly true and complete But
the Arizona explosion was on grander scale
than any OF those concerned with the creation
of the South African mines. The multitude ana
massiveness of it's products give a measure Of
its vehemence. They all but certainly rep
resented by the supposed meteoric remnants at
Canyon Diablo. These must now be admitted
to be earth born not sky-seEt. while their close
resemblance 20 the Ovifak irons intmates their
election from a corresponding subterranean
depth
TIE MEMORY OF WALLACE.
From The London Sketch.