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know to the contrary, but they have no taste, no, not 

 a particle. A dome is not a good phice for a museum. 

 Galleries are better. Nothing can be got to fill up the 

 central space, unless one should erect a pyramid of 

 elephants, megatheria, giraffes, and crocodiles. 



There are materials for a good display, however. 

 The zoological specimens are excellent, the minerals 

 tolerable, the shells poor. 



Dr. Hannay's friend then took me to the small 

 room containing Dr. Hunter's anatomical and patho- 

 logical collection — filth, dirt, and abomination; a few 

 skeletons of quadrupeds, some skulls, and two or three 

 hundred preparations in bottles, all disgustingly dirty 

 and disorderly. A young Hibernian showed the 

 wonders, himself not the least, yet a good sort of a lad, 

 and smartly attired. I hope I shall not see many 

 collections like them, otherwise I shall renounce the 

 calling, and betake myself to geognosy, where, if there 

 be confusion, it is confusion with design, or to botany, 

 where all is beauty. 



Liverpool Harbour, " Ailsa Craig," 

 Friday, Saturday, September, 1 a.m. 



We arrived here ten minutes ago. When I got up 

 in the morning Ave were off Portpatrick. The land to 

 the Mull of Galloway was rather low, bare, and un- 

 interesting. The rocks along the water apparently 

 trranite along the whole coast. 



From Air Point to Ramsay in the Isle of Man the 

 land low and sandy. The banks vary in height to 80 or 



