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Hair Ball, with the pollished [sic], taken out of the Stomach of a Cow

A fowls gizard with two tail feathers projecting a part having been digested

The Water in one of the City Hydrant Pumps becoming offensive, the place being opened, it was found to be owing to a quantity of fibrous Roots proceeding from a Lombardy Poplar

Three stone[s] taken out of a Bullocks Kidney

A piece of an Anchor stock which had laid in St. Marys river about 18 months & eaten by the worms like a honey-comb

A transverse section of a Tree, which appears to have a second one within, there being two Saps and Barks. Cut in New Castle county. State of Delaware

A Blacksmiths Shop

A bone said to have been thrown up by the Eruptions in the Mississippi

Hair Ball taken from the Maw of an Hog which weighs 250 Lb. from Thomas Lea's farm

Clamb Shell and Oysters attached to each other

A curious growth of wood, resembling a Snake winding round a strait Stick

A bottle taken from a creek at Cape Henlopen with Oysters growing to it.

A singularly formed Root, perhaps of the Splatterdock

A curious growth of Indian Corn. raised by Paul Cooper near Woodberry [Woodbury] N.J.

A Horn. It was extirpated from the knee of a negro woman about 45 years of age