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Un morceau de mine grise semes de parties brillantes couleur de plomb & de beaucoup de vert degris a été trouvé dans les rues perdues aparnt par un paysan

Two fragments of concretions of small pebbles of various sorts in a reddish cement

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

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

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

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

Fragment of Stalactites from a cave near Miller's Town on Susquehannah, Calcined

Native Sulphur from Siberia

Specimens of the Iron Ore of Durham Iron-Works Bucks county Pennsylva

A Specimen of Spath from the Peake of Derbyshire (England) forming a Kind of piramid of cubes

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

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

A Specimen of Spath Seems to have part of Spath of an orbicular form whose surface for above one third of an inch deep is tinged with purple