258 November 1748. 



kind of Serpentine Jlone, or Ltnnauss Talcum, Syft. 

 nat. 3. p. 52. 



MR. Bartram likewife fhewed me little pieces 

 of a black flate, which is plentifully found in fome 

 parts of the river Skullkill. There are pieces to 

 be found, which are four feet and above fquare : 

 the colour and configuration is the fame as in the 

 Table JIate (Schijlus tabularis Linn.) Syft. nat. 3. 

 p. 37. except that this is a little thicker. The 

 inhabitants of the country thereabouts (in the 

 neighbourhood of the Skulfkill) cover their roofs 

 with it ; Mr. Bartram affured me, that he had 

 feen a whole roof compofed of four fuch flates. 

 The rays of the fun, heat, cold, and rain do not 

 ad: upon the ftone. 



MR. Bartram further related, that in feveral 

 parts of the country, caves or holes were to be 

 met with, going deep into the mountains: he 

 had been in feveral of them and had often found a 

 number of Stalactites, Linnaus's Stalaffites ftil!a~ 

 titius. Syft. nat. 3. p. 183. of different dimen- 

 fions at the top; they differed in colour, but the 

 greateft curiofity was, that in fome of the caves 

 Mr. Bartram had found Stalactites, whofe out- 

 ward fide was as it were wreathed from top to 

 bottom ; he had fent fome pieces of it to Lon- 

 don, and had none at prefent. 



Nov. 2oth. THIS morning I fet out in com- 

 pany of a friend, on a journey to Raccoon in New 

 Jcrfey, where many Swedes live, who have their 

 own church. We had three miles to go before 

 we came to the ferry which was to bring us over 

 the Delaware. The country here was very low 

 in fome places : the plains on the banks of the 



river 



