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A Hair-Ball, handsomely glased on the outside, taken from a Cow

A cluster of Pitch Pine, Burs [burls?] about 33 in number

A goose's Quill, with a double feather

A Lock of hair taken from the head of mr. [blank] who died in 17[blank]. perfectly Grey, and 14 years after the vault was opened and this brown lock cut off of his head

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

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 singularly formed Root, perhaps of the Splatterdock

A curious Knot of a Elm Tree, from Jefferson County State of Tenesee

A Blacksmiths Shop

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

A curious specimen of wood, entwined together

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

Double and twisted Chain Cut out of the solid wood and presented by Jonathan P. Evans

Hair Ball, taken from the stomach of a Calf 6 weeks old