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III. A Jhort Account of fome Specitnens of 
native Lead found in a Mine of Mon- 
mouthfhire : In a Letter from Michael 
Morris, M. D. F. R . S. to M. Maty, 
M. D. Sec. R. S. 
Fiudyer’s-Strcet, Weftminfter, Nov, 5, 1772, 
S I R, 
Read Nov. 19, BOUT the middle of laft July, I 
1772 _/ \ received three fpecimens of lead-ore 
from Valentine Morris, Efq; of Piercefield, in Mon- 
mouthfliire. They were dug up in one of his fields, 
on making fome drains, at no confiderable depth ; they 
were marked N° 1, 2, 3. On reducing to powder 
an ounce and a half of the ore, marked N° 3, in 
order to aflay it, I perceived that feveral fmall bits 
were flatted by the peftle, which, on a farther exa- 
mination, proved to be native lead. Though the 
bits of lead are inconfiderable, yet, as they are the 
flrfl: that have been publickly feen in England, 
or, that I know of, in Europe, fome of the beft 
and latefl: writers on mineralogy declaring that they 
have not met vyith any, 3 thought it my duty to ac- 
quaint the Royal Society with the fad:, that the firfh 
account 
