Ancient Catalogue of Objects of Natural History. 287 



149. Oblong white pebbles, with an amethyst line, from the beach 

 on Fisher's Island : where they are all of this form. 



150. Blew and white flat pebbles, from a spring, where there is a 

 quantity of them. 



151. Reddish irregular pebbles, from an iron-spring, where all the 

 stones are of the same sort for a good way where the water flows. 



153. Reddish bowlder stones, of which consists a great hill in the 

 upland parts. 



155. Small irregular stones, which compose a small beach at the 

 southwest corner of Long Island. 



Alu7nen plumosum, (Ashestos.) 



158. The stone, between which the Alumen plumosum is found. It 

 makes the best furnaces that can be, bearing the fire beyond any thing 

 known. It is found near Plainfield, on Quinebauge River, and also in 

 several other parts of the country. (See No. 159.) 



159. Alumen plumosum. The stone (No. 158) where this is found, 

 makes the best furnaces in the world. It will endure the strongest fires. 



Talc. 



165. A gold talc, taken up in a swamp, where it is in great plenty. 

 [Nos. 166 to 181 all the same — "gold, silver, and blewish talc."] 



Spars. 



182. White spar from the top of a very high hill in the uplands. 



184. A white spar, as it is found upon a small beach in a fresh-water 

 pond up the country. 



185. White spar, with black gritt, containing steel ; near Colchester. 

 191. A flesh-coloured spar, a leader to richer oars. 



196. Spar with a blewish stone adhering, from the high cliffs of 

 Sandwich beach. 



207. Fragments of dark reddish and black spars, from Clam-Pudding 

 Pond, in Plymouth colony. 



210. Flakes of an odd sort of spar, 



211. Shining spar, found in great plenty in the place it comes from 

 in the uplands. 



212. Spar from near the Spar-hill. 



216. Stone composed of different coloured small grains of spar, 

 with mica intermixt, leaders to ores. 



218. Spar, a leader to 2^. 



219. A white spar with flakes of pyrites, a leader to ^ and ^2 5 f^'oni 

 Poquanock. 



220. White spar, a leader to >2 • 



221. Crystal spars from the bottom of a well of fine water. 



