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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

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

Cristalisation du Hartz en Hanovie
Trans.: Crystalization from the Harz Mountains in Hanover [Germany]

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), the greatest part of which is tinged with purple

Rocks of Chrystals 15,c, 15,e, 15,f

Un morceau de mine grise semes de parties brillantes couleur de plomb & de beaucoup de vert degris a été trouvé dans les rues perdues aparnt par un paysan

Chrystallized mica 6,A

Quartz with Schorl

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

Un morceau de talc de Venise; talcum argenteum lucidum
Trans.: A piece of talc of Venice; shiny silver talcum

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

Un peu d'asbest ou lin incombustible des anciens Trans.: A bit of asbestos or noncombustible flax of old

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