90 
A V0YAGE T0 
1776. 
December. 
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pieces; and pretty large lumps of feml-tranfparent quartz, 
difpofed irregularly in polyedral pyramidal cryltals of long 
lliining fibres. Some fmall pieces of the common fort are 
met with in the brooks, made round by attrition; but 
none hard enough to refill a file. Nor were any of the 
other ftones ached on by aqua fortis, or attracted by the 
magnet. 
Nothing, that had the leall appearance of an ore or me¬ 
tal, was feen.” 
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