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An English Penny rolled to be 24 feet in length and 7/8ths of an inch in breadth

2 Specimens of double goose quills

A Calculus, taken out of the Stomach of a Llama, which caused its death

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

Seal, cut from a solid piece of wood, with a pen knife, by master Joseph Vogels of this city

A Lock of hair taken from the head of mr. [blank] who died in 17[blank]. perfectly Grey, and 14 years after the vault was opened and this brown lock cut off of his head

A Bottle, with Oyster Shells grown fast to it taken from the British Sloop of War

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The Finger of Mr. Broliman

Hair Ball, with the pollished [sic], taken out of the Stomach of a Cow

Hair Ball taken from a Calf 4 weeks and 5 days old

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

Three stone[s] taken out of a Bullocks Kidney

A hair ball found in the Stomack of a calf, cut in two

A Honey Comb, which was taken out of [a] large Mahogany Log

A piece of an Anchor stock which had laid in St. Marys river about 18 months & eaten by the worms like a honey-comb