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Quartz with Schorl

A piece of Christal 6 1/2 inches long and near two broad hexangular & terminated at both ends by an unfinished piramid of a reddish colour but flawy

A piece of Mundick ore formed of a variety of cubes and Square pieces of Shining colour found near Quebec

Several pieces of Talk [talc] 5 inches long 3 1/2 broad found in a quarry of that fossil in a mountain seventy miles from Portsmouth in New Hampshire

Asbestos des Montagnes de Suisse
Trans.: Asbestos from the mountains of Switzerland

Asbestus 3,B, 4,B, 5,B, 6,B

A piece of Christal tinged with purple in my yard

Talk [talc], Chrystal

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England) covered in most parts with Small cubes and globules of Shining mundick, but with (gold?) mundick

Two Small pieces about a foot long and three or four inches diameter

5 differents sortes de mines de cette prov. [Pennsylvania] & du celle du Jersey
Trans.: Five different specimens from mines from this province [Pennsylvania] and Jersey

Rocks of Chrystals 15,c, 15,e, 15,f

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England), the greatest part of which is tinged with purple