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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



There is an underground railway three miles long in Budapest 

 of which the building was fully illustrated by diagram and model. 

 This mention gives excuse for returning on our steps and picking 

 up some more matters as we returned to the entrance. Air-brakes, 

 lighting methods and ventilation were all fully illustrated, and 

 on the walls were good paintings of the mountain railways and 

 such other matters as could best be shown in that manner. It is 

 not pretended that this brief summary does justice to the com- 

 pleteness and tasteful arrangement of the exhibits, but it may 



55. HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



convey some idea of the value of such a national collection to the 

 polytechnic student as well as to the traveling public. I am 

 almost afraid, from the eagerness with which the attendants met 

 our evident interest, that the attendance of visitors is not as it 

 should be. Almost in a postscript I must mention models, of con- 

 siderable size, of two flying machines, an Antoinette (of which we 

 saw a specimen not much larger flying with startling noise later 

 at Versailles) and one of Wright's earliest machines. 



As Hungary is an agricultural country it was to be expected 

 that one of the many museums would be devoted to that industry, 

 and we were not disappointed, for in the park was what seemed a 

 former villa converted into a museum that was certainly attractive 



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