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

Différens morceaux d'AgatheTrans.: Different pieces of agate

Un morceau de talc de Venise; talcum argenteum lucidum
Trans.: A piece of talc of Venice; shiny silver talcum

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

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

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

Oval Shining Pyrites

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

Rock of pebbles

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

Chrystallized mica 6,A

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

An Iron Stone, about 9 inches long and near three broad, in the middle of a singular form

Talk [talc], Chrystal