Cabinet of Southern Curiosities 



CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING SPECIMENS: I 



No. 1. COyUINA.— The stranj^c shell CDnglomeration 

 of which the ancient Fort, City Gates, and other | 

 structures in St. Augustine were constructed cen- 

 turies ag(). 



No. 2. WHITE BRANCH CORAL. —From the Ba- 

 hama Islands. 



No. 3. COTTON SEED.— A mammoth variety fr()ni 

 South Carolina. Will grow in the Northern garden. 



No. 4. SEA BEANS.— Four varieties. These curious 

 productions of nature grow npcm vines in sandy soil 

 bordering the ocean on the Bahama Islands, and will 

 mature in the green-house at the North. 



No. 5. BLEEDINO TOOTH.— Resembling a tooth 

 bleeding — one of the mo.st remarkable of all the sea 

 shells 



No. G. COTTON BOLL.— Picked from a Southern 

 cotton-field. 



No. 7. PECTEN SHELL.— Much used for ornamental 

 and decorative purposes. 



No. 8. EYE STONE.— A calcareous concretitm found 

 in the stomach of the craw-fish. It will remove all 

 foreign substances from the eye, and one should 

 always he kept at hand. 



No. II. 'FLEXIMLE CORAL. — (Gorgonia). -A curious 

 vegetable growth, from Nassau, over which is a coral 

 formation depnsitcd by a marine animal. 



No. 10- CONFKlHOK.vr'E MONEY.- A piece of gen- 

 uine currenry. issued by the State of North Carolina 

 during the Rebellion, each numbered and signed, an 

 issue found in but few collections. 



No. 11. ALLIGATOR'S TOOTH.— From a Florida alli- 

 gator. 



No. 12. VEGETABLE SPONGE.- A specimen of this 

 curious native growth, caded in Spanish "Estra 

 P.IJO," grows freely in Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas. 



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