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

A leaf of the Beach [beech] from the sulphur Springs, Gene. [Genesee, N.Y.]

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

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

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

Specimen of the fiber of Asclipias [Asclepias] Bombycina or Swallow wart, or Milk weed

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

A double Hickory nut

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

Misseltoe (Viscum Album) taken from a tree near the tomb of General Washington

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

A singular Squash

A remarkable large Turnip, weighing 80lbs. which grew in North-Carolina the last season