JOURNAL 85 



the world judge which of tlie cities has displayed most 

 judgment and good taste. 



Charles II. John Knox. 



George IV. Watt. 



Lord Melville. Sir John Moore. 



Burns. William III. 



At twelve I at length obtained admission to the 

 CoUeae Museum. 



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In the front room are several stuffed skins of 

 quadrupeds : a camelopard of rather small size, a 

 zebra, a hyena, several species of deer and antelope, 

 a lion and lioness, etc., most of them very ill-prepared, 

 and in bad attitudes, with clumsy ununiform pedestals. 

 They are, however, kept very clean, and have in 

 general been good specimens. There are four recesses 

 in the walls, filled with foreign birds and insects, ill- 

 prepared and whimsically disposed. 



In the room to the right are coins, medals, snakes, 

 quadrupeds, all without order. 



A collection of British birds, very clean and neat, 

 but generally in bad attitudes. The beaks of two 

 eagles were actually polished and varnished, and the 

 legs and bills in general were painted, usually of tints un- 

 like those of the parts in their natural state. The legs 

 of birds ought never to be painted for obvious reasons. 



Minerah. — A very large and fine piece of Labrador 

 felspar, polished. 



Left-hand room : birds and quadrupeds, fresh and 

 in good condition, but generally ill-stuffed. 



