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No. 5. A specimen of a beautiful milk white Gypfum^ or 



plafber of paris, of a carminated texture, and fomewhat tranf- 

 parent, found in large quantities in the townfliip of Camillus 

 and county of Onondago. 



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No. 6. The fame Gypfiim calcined by a gentle heat and fallen 

 to powder, refembling the fineft flour in foftnefs and white- 

 nefs. , . 



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No. 7. A tranfparent glaffy fpecimen of the fame kind of 

 Gypfiim^ from the fame place* 



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No. 8. A folid piece of Gyp/urn from the fame place, and 

 fomewhat refembling the former, but exhibitmg an appear- 



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ance like camphor on the furface of its tranfverfe fraOiure. 



The body of Gypfeous Chryflal, of which the foregoing are 

 famples, lies about feven miles nearly weft from the Salt 

 Springs ; and about a quarter of a mile fouthward from where 

 the main road to the weftward crofTes the ilream that runs out 



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of the Ojiifco lake^ here called the Nine mile Creek. In confe- 

 quence of this fituation, near the Oftifco lake and outlet, it is 

 called the OsTisco Gypsum. From this place the waters are 

 navigable with batteaux into the Onondago or Salt lake and 

 Seneca river, affording a conyenient tranfportation. The Gyp- 

 fum is found againfl the banks of a gully, in which the waters 



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that run through it in wet feafons have worn a pebbly channel. 

 The bank declines but a few degrees from a perpendicular. 

 About ten or fifteen feet from the bottom the Gypfam is {^cn 



like a rock of chryflal, which has been wholly covered with 



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