14 NEW-YORK STATE COLLECTION. 



162. A Silver coin (fuang), *]\ cents, from Siam in India. 



Rev. A. Hemenway. 



163. A Silver coin, date 1652 : on one side " New-England," on the 



reverse " Massachusetts ; " commonly called Pine-tree shilling. 



Hiram H. Cooper. 



164. Eleven Chert arrowheads, found in Stuyvesant, Columbia county. 



Aaron Van Alen. 



165. A Cannon ball, found near the junction of the Battenkill with the 



Hudson river, on the farm where Burgoyne erected a breast- 

 work, etc. during the revolutionary war. 



Mrs. S. M. Lansing Merchant. 



166. Several Chert arrowheads ; also fragments of Homan bones and 



Indian pottery, obtained from an ancient indian burying- 

 ground on the banks of Connecticut river. A. Marks. 



167. An Indian chert arrowhead (large) : found in Bethlehem, Albany 



county. L. M'Mullen Selkirk. 



168. A fragment of Indian pottery : found on the banks of the Hudson 



river, six miles above the High falls. This fragment, which is 

 two inches long and one and a half wide, represents the head 

 and about one half of the shell of a tortoise : it appears to 

 have been a portion of a pipe. Ebenezer Emmons. 



169. A specimen of Cloth made of the bark of the breadfruit tree, by 



the natives of one of the islands of the Pacific ocean. 



Ferdinand Weil. 



170. A piece of one of the Oak trees cut down in the town of Argyle, 



Washington county, in the year 1797, for the purpose of con- 

 structing a navy, under the administration of John Adams. 



There were at that time two gigantic oaks which grew near 

 together, that were cut for the abovenamed purpose. One of them 

 was hewed, and afterwards drawn by fifteen yoke of oxen, with 

 the forward end elevated on a huge wood-sled. "When they had got 

 out of the woods, a "stump speech" was delivered by one of the 

 party from the forward end of the stick, as a stage. After passing 

 the bottle around, according to the custom of the times, they 

 moved on with shouts of overflowing patriotism that almost 

 seemed to inspire even the dull ox with more than his ordinary 

 ambition, and thus delivered the stick at a place then called Du- 

 mont's Ferry, a short distance below Fort Miller. 



The other tree, of which the piece presented to the State Cabinet 

 is a part, was cut and scored on two sides, and partly hewed; but 



