Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 57v
Additional Source Text:
"Another of Iron mix'd with arsenic, blackish and the outside of a dark red Colour, another seems to be a kind of haematites, two more Seems to contain Iron but in a variety of form & appearance but all are very ponderous the other pieces are less & contain Sulphur in a Shining appearance of various gold colours &c. they are of this country but place unknown."
