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PROM J. W. BARKER & CO. OF SYRACUSE, ONONDAGA COUNTY. 



Specimens of Solak Salt, manufactured by the Syracuse Coarse Salt 

 Company. 



FROM PIERRE VAN CORTLAND, OP WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. 



A specimen of Sulphxjret of Iron, from Anthony's Nose, in thg 

 Highlands. 



FROM NATHAN B. COOLEY, OP MONROE, ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. 



Several large masses of Compact Slate, which have a strking re- 

 semblance to fragments of fossil trees. They are from the slate 

 formation of the town of Monroe, Orange county, New-York, and 

 were forwarded to the State Cabinet as indications of a coal for- 

 mation, supposing them to be veritable petrified stumps and parts 

 of fossil trees. 



These specimens have been submitted to the examination of Mr. 

 Hall, the State Palaeontologist, who pronounces them to be mere- 

 ly concretions, and not petrified wood. 



PROM JACOB B. HAWK, OP BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 



A specimen of Water-lime, from the farm of Thomas L. Allen, 

 in the town of Pleasantvalley, Dutchess county, New-York. 



A specimen of Lead Ore, from the lands of Ward Bryan, in the 



town of Northeast, Dutchess county, New- York. 



Seven varieties of Marble, polished, from the lands of Thomas L. 

 Allen, in the town of Pleasantvalley, Dutchess county, N.Y. 



FROM BENJAMIN P. JOHNSON, OP ALBANY. 

 Two specimens of Gold-beaking Quartz, from California. 



