Enclosure: Specimens from Louisiana Territory, 6 November 1805
Enclosure: Specimens from Louisiana Territory
Contents1 of a trunk transmited by Capt. Stoddard to the President
| No. 1 | Pumice Stone, Supposed from the River Piere Jaune or, as called by the Natives, Licorne | |
| 2 | Argillaceous, Shistres, the Calumet Stone of the Indians | |
| 3 | Chrystalised Gypsum | |
| 4 | Salt from a Pit on the head waters of Arkansas | |
| 5 | Fusible Spar | |
| 6 | Salt which arises by exhalation and to be found adjoining the waters of River Platte | |
| 7 | Iron, lead and Pyrites | |
| 8 | Gallena in its gangue of white lead Spar from the old mines— | |
| 9 | Hexahedral Pyramidal Spar | |
| 10 | Iron Ore from the Merimack | |
| 11 | Calcareous Spar | |
| 12 | Galena from the Merimack | |
| 13 | Galena from Old mines | |
| 14 | Whitelead Spar | |
| 15 | Steel grained lead ore from Mine La Motte | |
| 16 | Galena from Reddicks mine. | |
| 17 | Iron ore from Osage River | |
| 18 | Iron ore from the mine à Maneto | |
| 19 | Lead ore from Mine à Burton, mine à Joe and mine à Renault— | |
| 20 | Mineral from upper Louisiana | |
| 21 | Plumbago from Missouri | |
| 22 | Iron ore from the River Platte | |
| 23 | Pyrites from the mine la Motte | |
| 24 | Lead Slag from the smelting furnace at Mine lamotte | |
| 25 | Fibrous Gypsum from the North West Branch of the River Canzès | |
| 26 | Iron Ore from the Merimack on Fourch arnault | |
| 27 | Black Chalk from the Mandane2— |
Sent by the same conveyance
an Indian Chart delineated on a Buffaloe Pelt.—
two horned Frogs.—
a Cluster of the fruit3 of the Cotton Tree
a drawing of Leaf & Cluster taken from nature—
Specimens of the Silk or down & the age & dimensions of the Tree from which they were taken—
Ja Wilkinson
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 146:25403-4); undated; numbered list of 27 minerals in Amos Stoddard’s hand, with addition in Wilkinson’s hand (see note 1 below); second list on separate sheet in Wilkinson’s hand and signed by him; notations by TJ (see note 3 below); endorsed by TJ: “Wilkinson James.”
River Piere Jaune: the Yellowstone River.
Calumet Stone: probably catlinite, or red pipestone, used by indigenous people to craft ceremonial pipes (William P. Corbett, “Pipestone: The Origin and Development of a National Monument,” Minnesota History, 47 [1980], 82-92; Vol. 17:xxix, 341n).
Fourch arnault: Renault’s Fork (Vol. 43:640, 642n).
1. The remainder of the heading following this word is in Wilkinson’s hand.
2. Remainder of document is in Wilkinson’s hand.
3. TJ interlined “cluster” and “fruit” above the respective words to clarify Wilkinson’s handwriting.