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A piece of Christal tinged with purple in my yard

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

Groupe de Cristal de Suisse
Trans.: Group of Swiss crystals

Un peu d'asbest ou lin incombustible des anciens Trans.: A bit of asbestos or noncombustible flax of old

A Small piece of Clear purple Christal from near Marlboro' Iron Works, Virginia

Hematites from Conegogig Cumberland [present-day Franklin] county [Pa.]

Three fragments of haematites two of which of the orbicular sort of this province [Pennsylvania]

Une grosse piramid de Christal trouvée a Chester County
Trans.: A large crystal piramid found in Chester County

Un morceau de mine de fer sur le quel croit du cristal trouve a Reading Furnace, Chester County
Trans.: A specimen from an iron mine in which crystal is believed to have been found in Reading Furnace, Chester County

A Small fragment of Shining pyrites (mundick) No. [blank] of my collection of Fossils

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

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

Oval Shining Pyrites

Quartz with Schorl

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England) covered in most parts with Small cubes and globules of Shining mundick, the bare places chalky, the inside Spath