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

A Small piece of Mundic in a well Chester township 7 miles from ferry

White Marble 4,A

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

A large piece of a column of Stalactites two feet and a half long, ten inches diameter, weight [blank] pounds

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

Five cakes of Terra Sigillata & Terra Lemnia

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

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

A Small Specimen of Stone of a gold and Silver mine from Mexico (No. 10.a.) catal[ogue] [catalogue unlocated]

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

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

Various Specimens of the copper ore from Hill's Hall Bound-Brook in Somerset County New Jersey

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