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Decomposed Wood dug up from 45 feet below the Surface of the Earth at Washington City

2 Specimens of double goose quills

Three stone[s] taken out of a Bullocks Kidney

Hair Ball, taken from a Goats Maw, at St. Martin's

The Water in one of the City Hydrant Pumps becoming offensive, the place being opened, it was found to be owing to a quantity of fibrous Roots proceeding from a Lombardy Poplar

Hare Ball from a Calf

Watch Key &c taken out of the Gizzard of a Goose

A Fishing Hook, which has a bony concretion around it

[Stone?] in enclosed in a tree

A curious Knot of a Elm Tree, from Jefferson County State of Tenesee

A curious growth of the Blackberry, much resembling a Bird produced by Insects

A Stone taken out from between the skin and Flesh of an Ox by William Gintler. Weight eleven grains

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

Part of a Calculus, from a Horse, found 4 feet in the Mud on Newtown flats

Pig-nut Bark, with Insects, shewing the ramifications made by the young or grub, from the parent