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Baker of Providence was prepared by Davis and Babbui, 
jewellers and lapidaries, chambers over No. 45 and 47, 
Cheapside. Mr. Baker, we understand, keeps jewellery for 
sale, but neither cuts stones nor sets them, but employs oth- 
ers to perform this work. The amethyst mentioned in that 
note,* was ground by Mr. Davis, and set by Mr. Babbitt. 
essrs. Davis and Babbitt, (adds our iaformant,) “do 
business on a pretty large scale—they have a number of 
workmen, and cut their stones by water: during the past 
year, they are supposed to have made from six to eight thou- 
sand watch seals, all the stones of which were more or less 
ground by them.” 
22. West Point Minerals.—Estract of a letter to the Edi- 
Compact white scapolite in large masses, associated with 
pyroxene, &c. It is a singular and beautiful mineral, of 
which [I shall send you specimens. Sphene in macle crys- 
tals. Lt. Webster lately presented me with a splendid spe- 
cimen of a crystal of the kind Haiiy calls caniculé, which is 
about 2 inches long, and very brilliant, with perfectly fla: 
sides. It was found in the same rock with the scapolite, 
which also contains stilbite and fine phosphate of lime. There 
are some interesting localities a few miles distant which I shall 
visit in a few days, and give you the results. 
* Set to be worn as a bosem-pin, and presented by fhe Frarklin So- 
ciety of Pravidence. 
