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In view of the impression made upon the doctors of the first 

 embassy by Dr. Gross himself it is hardly possible that his name 

 was unknown in Japan until his book was carried there from 

 Germany. Undoubtedly this is another one of those cases of the 

 long slow-but-sure working of American leaven through many poli- 

 tical vicissitudes. 



It is inadvisable to prolong this paper for many further details 

 of the doings of the embassy during the week in Philadelphia. 

 Suffice it to note, in brief, that among the places visited were John- 

 son's type foundry — where the orientals were presented with a book 

 of specimen types and cuts and a silver mounted case of type ; 

 M'Allister's optical and philosophical instrument establishment 

 where they witnessed experiments with air pumps, electrical ma- 

 chines, etc., and a lantern exhibition in which the Drummond light 

 excited great curiosity ; to the great foundries of the Merricks and 

 of Morris, Tasker & Co. ; to the gas works, where " grand stands " 

 had been erected and were filled with hundreds of invited Philadel- 

 phians of both sexes — chiefly to witness the ascension of two great 

 balloons (or rather to see Japanese for the first time behold aerial 

 travel) ; to Bailey's jewelry establishment where, after examining 

 with magnifiers the works of watches, tliey ordered a lot of them to 

 be sent to their rooms, and where they showed judgment in the pur- 

 chase of opera glasses, appreciating the chromatic lens, and caring 

 little for such merely ornamental work as their own artificers could 

 equal or excell. They chose the plain and the useful, displaying a 

 keen selective sense. Here, too, the envoys were presented with a 

 medal especially designed and struck by the Bailey house to com- 

 memorate the occasion. In addition to these places visits were paid 

 to Baldwin's locomotive works, Sellers's machine works, the water 

 works, and Girard College. 



The Japanese were loaded with all manner of specimens of tools, 

 instruments and products of our skilled workers — including pictures 

 of the Baldwin engines, stereoscopes and views, a superb Sloat sew- 

 ing machine encased in wood from Mount Vernon and (so said) 

 the Treaty Elm ; a Disston saw, level, gauge and square ; a set of 

 teeth on a gold plate, and many other samples of American origi- 

 nality, skill and enterprise. 



