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

Chrystallized mica 6,A

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

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England) covered in most parts with Small cubes and globules of Shining mundick, but with (gold?) mundick

A piece of Mundick ore formed of a variety of cubes and Square pieces of Shining colour found near Quebec

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

A fragment of a Stalactite from Canada

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

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

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

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

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

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

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