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Three fragments of Stalactites from a Cavern near Col. Isaac Zane's Iron Works at Marlboro' near Winchester Virginia

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

April 1779

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 39r

Additional Source Text:

"One is a fragment of that kind that hang down like icicles Sparry inside and covered with a reddish Stony incrustation another Shooting in the Shape of [Stragell?] Christal, branching out like Some Kind of White West Indian coral, both covered like the first with a reddish incrustation."

Notes:

The donor was possibly Philadelphia ironmonger Jonathan Zane.