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LIST OF SPECIMENS IN THE ECONOMIC COLLECTION. 



MAGSTETIC IKON OKES rEOM NOETHEKN BTE-W YOKE. 



1. A block from Moriah Mining Company, Humbug Hill, Moriah, Essex Co. 



2. A large block from the Clieever ore bed, Port Henry, Essex comity. 



3. A large mass of veinstone, with iron ore, from a vein cutting the Cheever 



ore bed. 



4. Two small blocks from the Cheever ore bed. 



5. One large block of crystalized Magnetic Ore from the New Bed, Moriah, 



Essex county. 



6. A small block from the same bed. 



7. Two large blocks from Wetherbee, Sherman & Co., Old Bed, or No. 21, 



Moriah, Essex county. 



8. One block from ore bed, Moriah, Essex county. 



9. Two blocks of Iron Ore from Adiroudac region, sources of the Hudson 



river; name of particular locality not known. 



10. Two blocks of Iron Ore, with felspar. French mountain. 



11. One block of Red Hematite from Clinton, Oneida county. 



SPECIMENS OF BUILDING STONES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 



IiATJEEWTIAW SYSTEM. 



1. A large block of Granite, or fine-grained Gneiss, with surface not dressed; 



squarely broken. Greenfield, Saratoga county. 



2. A large irregular block of the same, showing in part a weathered surface 



and regular even fractured sides. Greenfield, Saratoga county. 



3. A cube of about six inches, same rock, with the sides dressed, and one 



face showing the natural fracture. Greenfield, Saratoga county. 



4. A large block of fine-grained Gneiss, or Granite. A few miles northeast 



from the above locality. 



5. A block of coarse Gneiss, from Luzerne, Warren county. 



6. A large block, two feet by eighteen inches, and twelve inches thick, very 



even in character and fracture. From the Gneiss at Sacandaga river 

 at the crossing of the Adirondac railroad. 



