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Talk [talc], Chrystal

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

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

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

Two Small pieces about a foot long and three or four inches diameter

Hematites from Conegogig Cumberland [present-day Franklin] county [Pa.]

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

Quartz with Schorl

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

A fragment of a Stalactite from Canada

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

Chrystallized mica 6,A

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

Groupe de Cristal de Suisse
Trans.: Group of Swiss crystals