Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Notes on plants and natural history. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

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Contains notes on Linnaean classes of plants, including Hexandria and Tetradynamia, and plant specimens; a manuscript, possibly by botanist James MacBride (1784-1817), describing plants local to swamps, pine barrens, sand hills, and other ecoregions; lists of Linnaean names of fishes and reptiles; lists of mollusks and notes on genera including Patella and Helix; a list in French of minerals, with descriptions, locations they were found, and some donor names, in an unknown hand; notes on specimens found in limestone and on geology and geography, with an illustration on the verso; and a list of elevated mountains in American, calculated from barometrical observations by A. Partridge of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. There are also some loose plants specimens.

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Numéros Noms des Pays
et Remarques Description lieux et Donateurs
— 32. Chaux Carbonatée blanche Anti Paros.
stalactitique
— 33. Chaux Carbonatée blanche Cremnitz en Hougrie
mammellerée (cône sectionnée).
Sur Quartz Hyalin radié et espece
de Wake contenant du Fer Sulfure
Aurifère.
— 34. Chaux Carbonatée bleuâtre, transparente Perou.
zonée.
— 35. Chaux Carbonatée mélangée de Chaux Derbyshire.
Sulfatée fibreuse blanche a crée
avec des filons se Fer Sulfuré
Echantillon icii et poli ieu coté
— 36. Chaux Carbonatée blanche, opaque ou St Barthelem's
limpide amorphe ou grenue: disposée
eu réseauy au recoupés alleraut avec
la lave
— 37. Chaux Carbonatée limpide St Barthelem's
confusément crystallisée
les Crystaux sout tellement Hemitropes;
quil est difficila jau determines la forme
— 38. Chaux Carbonatée limpide Amorphe Bouillante Guadeloupe.
provenant de la décomposition du Courant
de lave Basaltique.
— 39. Chaux Carbonatée blanche Saccharoide
melange de Fer Sulfuré
Marbre blanc des Statuaires
— 40. Chaux Carbonatée Silicifere Pointe Noire Guadeloupe
lamelli forme.
— 41. Chaux Carbonatée Silicifére St Barthelems!
blanche nacrée primitive
lames courbees
— 42. Chaux Carbonatée verte [densié] Hartz.
transparente.
en petites lames Heptagones
cette copece doit la couteu au Cuioza
— 43. Chaux Carbonatée Magnetifere Autriche
verte.
primitive
(Bilter Spar. des Minerologistes —
Allamands.)
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Numéros Noms des Pays
et Remarques Description lieux et Donateurs
2 eme Espece.
Chaux Phosphatée.
Chaux Phosphatée bleue verdârtre Saxe.
annulaire. transparente
sur Micarelle de couleur jaunâtre
Chaux Phosphatée bleue verdârtre Arendal en Norwége
transparente
avec Chaux Siluatée violette. su
sur Micarelle et Chaux Phosphatée
grenu.
Chaux Phosphatée gris verdârtre New York.
lamellé forme et Amorphe le Dr. Bruce.
sur une Gangue qui parait avoir proffeseur de Minerologie.
accompagni des Sulfures de l'Utah
3 eme Espece.
Chaux Siluatée
Chaux Siluatée transparente. Derbyshire.
Violette et pourpre pâle
Sur Gangue qui parait avoir accompagnie
un Silon Metallique comme de seu Spathique
avec des Crystaux de Quartz lenticulaire
Ce set Echantillon a cela de particulier
que dans le Cabinet; les Anglese trouquent
par décroillements reguliers; ce qui le fait
paller au Dodecaëdre
Chaux Siluatée transparente. Angleterre.
jaune de Topaze a reflêt violârtres
Cubique.
Chaux Siluatée transparente. Cornwall.
Verd d'Aigue Marine.
Chaux Siluatée transparente.
bleue poupre Estramadure au
mélangée de Chaux Siluatée commune Espague.
mammallonér et la même substance
rouge de grenat.
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My tracing the course of this bed vein of Limestone I have only marked its general direction. It has as yet received little or no attention. Its topography if materials can be obtained may be the subject of some future communication. The attention of D. Macbride has traced it accurately through St. John & the adjoining parish of St. Mathew. And from him and from a few other persons, I have obtained some fine specimens of the marine productions imbedded in this rock. These specimens are however yet too few to be worth enumerating. I shall only remark that many of them are now inhabitants of the West Indies and are not found at present on our own coast. Some are still common on our coast and others are to me altogether unknown.

From any gentlemen of leisure and observation who reside in the course of this vein I would solicit information on the following points. 1. Its general course, direction, limits, its branches, and whether bounded by water courses. 2. Its general depth under the surface of the earth. 3. Its influence on the soil, on vegetation. 4. Its effect if ascertained when applied as a manure on the surface of the land. 5. Specimens of all the species of shells, bones, &c. which it contains. 6. Accurate observations on its [spring?].

[reverse] Local plants Aster liatroides. Thymbra. Ceratiola.

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[tracing]

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Height of the mountains in E. part of the state of New Hampshire
[probably?] the highest on this side the Mississippi
— — Height from the base From the Sea
About Washington — — feet 4885 6634
First Peak So. of Mount Washington — — 3904 5653
Second do. do. — — 3584 5333
Third do. do. — — 3430 5179
Fourth do. do. — — 3367 5116
Fifth do. do. — — 2881 4630
Base of this ridge of monuntains 1749
The Catskill Mountains, Round Top ... 3105 3804
High Peak... 3019 3718
Highest part of the turnpike which passes} — —
over this range of mountians from Catskill} 1729 2425
toward to the Deleware river — — — — } — —
Base — — — — — — 699 — —
These Peaks lie West from Catskill and are the most elevated in the range.
Highlands situated on the Hudson River below Newburg
Crows nest — — — — 1418
Butter hill — —— — 1529
Bull hill — — — — 1484
Old Beacon — — — — 1471
New Beacon — — — — 1385
Bare [Bear] Mountain — — — — 1350
Break neck — — — — 1187
Anthony's nose — — — — 935
Sugar loaf — — — — 866
Fort Putnam — — — — 598
West Point Plain — — — — 188
Green Mountains
Kittington [Killington] Peak — — — — 2994 3924
Base — — — — 930.
Calculated from barometrical observations by A. [Alden] Partridge Capt. of the U.S. Engineers ———
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