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Two Curious Stony appearances (perhaps Petrifactions)

Several Specimens of Fossil wood, impregnated with Bitumen, black & glossy inside

Petrefied Shell, found at the foot of the light-house

A Petrified Fish, from the top of a mountain near Naples

Petrified Shell taken from a Hill in the Chickesaw Nation

A Petrifaction found in digging a well, 30 feet below the surface of the earth

Three pieces of petrifications of roots of trees

A large fragment of a Stony incrustation round the root of a tree. Similar to those I brought from Hispaniola but harder

A fine specimen of petrified wood, found in the state of Delaware

Petrified wood N Jersey

Three fragments of a whitish Stony incrustation round roots and branches of trees from a Cavern near Col. Isaac Zane's Iron Works at Marlboro' near Winchester Virginia

Portions of a petrified Tree, specimens of the Bark and Wood of it

Petrifactions, found on the Minisink Settlement, 55 Miles above the Gap

A Petrifaction of the Echinus