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Shelly marble fr[om] Engl[and]

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

Oolithes, bien des Autheurs prétendent que ce sont des oeufs de poissons pétrifiésTrans.: Ooliths, many authors claim they are petrified fish eggs

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

5 fragments of Iron ore, very heavy & Shining like filings of Steel mixed with a purplish red Stone with Some appearance of Quartz

A fine earth of pearl grey colour in impalpable powder of a Soapy nature

Native Sulphur from Siberia

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

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

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

Iron-Ores, 61,j, 61,k, 61,1, 61,n, 61,p

White Marble 4,A

Chrystallized mica 6,A

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

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