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A singular Squash

Large growth of Oats, raised near the City, measuring 6 feet 3-1/2 in. high

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

A large Acorn, from Virginia

The plants commonly called "Bone Set" prepared in this form by the Shakers at Berwick, Pa.

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

A transverse section of a Tree, which appears to have a second one within, there being two Saps and Barks. Cut in New Castle county. State of Delaware

A vegetable unknown

Several specimens of the Fring'd Oak or Moss Acorn of Penna.

A Weed of the Sea called, Cape Ann [morring?]

A cluster of Pitch Pine, Burs [burls?] about 33 in number

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

Water Melon, purchased in the Jersey market by the donor, said to be not fit to eat, until the Spring of the year

A double Hickory nut

Areeka [areca] or Beetel Nuts, deprived of the outer covering