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Iron Pyrites. — Having every appearance of a petrifaction 

 of the body and limbs of a frog. Trumbull County, Ohio. 



Fluor Spar. — Black with a resinous lustre, by transmit- 

 ted light, it appears of a topaz yellow, or like smoky quartz 5 

 in the cavities, the crystals are white and transparent. 

 Huron County, Ohio. 



Sulphat ofBarytes. — White foliated, New-Stratford, Dr» 

 Nathan Smith. 



Calcareous Petrifaction of Wood. — Canasarago Creek, 

 New-York. A similar specimen from Chitteningo, apart 

 of a very large tree. Hon. Mr. Storrs, M. C. 



Gray Wacke. — With a fine grain, being part of the rock 

 on which Capt. James Cook fell at Owyhee. Mr. Smith 

 of the Cornwallis frigate, Royal Navy of Great-Britain. 



- Specimens from Prof. F. Hall. 



White compact Marble. — Highly translucent, yery hand- 

 some. 



Plumbago, in grey crystallized limestone. 



Micaceous Iron, very beautiful, New-Fane. 



Magnetic pyrites. — Copperas is made from it at Shrews- 

 bury, Vermont. 



Black Tourmalin in Quartz. — Dummerston, very hand- 

 some. 



Diallage in serpentine Rocks, near Keio-Haven. This 

 mineral is well characterized. 



Galena, near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. 

 It is in small plates, almost fine grained. 



Plumbago. — Cornwall, Conn. — Dr. Cornwell. 



From Dr. H. H. Hayden. 



Brown tourmalin, nine miles west of Baltimore. 



Supposed crystallized Magnesia. 



Zeolite — both radiated, (Mesotype) and cubic, (chabasie) 

 near Baltimore. 



Ligniform Steatite. — Nine miles from Baltimore. 



Shells cemented by the red haematite, Winchester, Vir- 

 ginia. 



Steatite, coloured of a beautiful lilac (by chrome ?) bare- 

 hills, near Baltimore. 



