﻿MINERALS. 
  

  

  DONATIONS 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  during 
  1851. 
  

  

  Prom 
  Hamilton 
  Fish, 
  late 
  Governor 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New- 
  York. 
  

  

  (Governor 
  Fish 
  received 
  the 
  following 
  as 
  a 
  present 
  from 
  Gov- 
  

   ernor^FLo 
  YD, 
  of 
  Virginia. 
  He 
  desired 
  to 
  mark 
  his 
  appreciation 
  

   of 
  the 
  donation, 
  by 
  placing 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Stat^ 
  Cabinet 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History.") 
  

  

  1. 
  Jfative 
  Rock 
  Salt^ 
  found 
  in 
  sinking 
  the 
  Salt 
  Wells 
  of 
  Washing- 
  

  

  ton^and 
  Smyth 
  counties, 
  Virginia. 
  (Two 
  specimens.) 
  

  

  2. 
  TahUy 
  or 
  Dairy 
  Salt, 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  Salt 
  Wells 
  of 
  Washington 
  

  

  and 
  Smyth 
  counties, 
  Virginia. 
  

  

  3. 
  Common 
  Salt, 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  Salt 
  Wells 
  of 
  Washington 
  and 
  

  

  Smyth 
  counties, 
  Virginia. 
  

  

  4. 
  Coarse 
  Salt, 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  Salt 
  Wells 
  of 
  Washington 
  and 
  Smyth 
  

  

  counties, 
  Virginia. 
  

  

  6. 
  Gypsum, 
  from 
  Washington 
  and 
  Smyth 
  counties, 
  Vu-ginia. 
  

   (Three 
  varieties.) 
  

  

  6. 
  Primitive 
  Marble, 
  from 
  Kockbridge 
  county, 
  Virginia. 
  

  

  7. 
  Iron 
  Ore, 
  (Limonite 
  1) 
  From 
  Graham's 
  Works 
  in 
  Wythe 
  coun- 
  

  

  ty, 
  Virginia. 
  Also 
  found 
  throughout 
  South-western 
  

   Virginia 
  and 
  East 
  Tennessee. 
  (Two 
  specimens.) 
  

  

  8. 
  Iron 
  Ore, 
  ( 
  ) 
  From 
  Sharpens 
  Iron 
  Works, 
  Washington 
  

  

  county, 
  Virginia. 
  

  

  9. 
  Lead 
  OrBy 
  from 
  Smyth 
  county, 
  Virginia. 
  , 
  (Two 
  specimens.) 
  

  

  