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Fragment of Stalactites from a cave near Miller's Town on Susquehannah, Calcined

Un morceau de mine de fer sur le quel croit du cristal trouve a Reading Furnace, Chester County
Trans.: A specimen from an iron mine in which crystal is believed to have been found in Reading Furnace, Chester County

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England) covered in most parts with Small cubes and globules of Shining mundick, the bare places chalky, the inside Spath

Une grosse piramid de Christal trouvée a Chester County
Trans.: A large crystal piramid found in Chester County

Asbestus 3,B, 4,B, 5,B, 6,B

A large piece of a column of Stalactites two feet and a half long, ten inches diameter, weight [blank] pounds

A piece of Christal tinged with purple in my yard

A piece of Christal 6 1/2 inches long and near two broad hexangular & terminated at both ends by an unfinished piramid of a reddish colour but flawy

A Specimen of Spath Seems to have part of Spath of an orbicular form whose surface for above one third of an inch deep is tinged with purple

Three fragments of Stalactites from a Cavern near Col. Isaac Zane's Iron Works at Marlboro' near Winchester Virginia

A Small piece of Clear purple Christal from near Marlboro' Iron Works, Virginia

Several pieces of Talk [talc] 5 inches long 3 1/2 broad found in a quarry of that fossil in a mountain seventy miles from Portsmouth in New Hampshire

5 differents sortes de mines de cette prov. [Pennsylvania] & du celle du Jersey
Trans.: Five different specimens from mines from this province [Pennsylvania] and Jersey

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England) forming a Kind of piramid of cubes