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matter, eats and drinks deliberately, hums now and then 

 to clear his throat, etc. Hogs smack at a great rate 

 while eating. Smack, smack, smack — a most gentle- 

 manly man too, vn lionime superbe. I would not live 

 within hearing of that fellow for £200 a year in addition, 

 and I feel tempted to wish I had one good crack at his 

 chops. The glutton took half an hour to it too — chup, 

 chup, chup. 



The principal object of my visit to Bristol having 

 been the inspection of the Museum of the Institution, I 

 now went to that " elegant building," as it is called in 

 the Bristol Guide, and introducing myself as myself to 

 the keeper, obtained permission to examine and inspect. 

 Nay, the good fellow accompanied me through the 

 whole, showed and explained everything, and afterwards 

 demonstrated the geology of the district from a hill top. 



The collections are badly distributed in small rooms, 

 the principal apartments being employed for other 

 purposes — as reading-room, library, lecture-room, etc. ; 

 but they are extensive and valuable. Rocks, simple 

 minerals, and fossils — tine specimens, capable of forming 

 a very beautiful series, at present partially arranged ; 

 stuffed quadrupeds and birds, a considerable number, 

 prepared in the usual style ; some skeletons, good — a 

 splendid one of a turtle — numerous skulls, magnificent 

 Egyptian mummies, and all sorts of things, including a 

 very beautiful " marble statue of Eve at the fountain," 

 by E. H. Baily, R.A., purchased from that artist by the 

 Institution for 600 guineas. There is a bad flaw in the 

 right thigh, and two patches, one on the back ; the 



