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((j) Double-deck, stage-body car, also to be drawn by horses. 



(7) Horse-power tread-mill car. This car was driven at the rate of 12 

 miles per hour by a single horse in the tread-mill, which was geared to 

 the wheels by a band. 



(8) Sail-car, with which experiments were made with a view to utilize 

 the power of the wind, as in boats. 



(9) First car drawn by a locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Kail- 

 way. 



(10) Engraving of first train of cars drawn by a locomotive in the 

 State of New York, on the line of communication between Boston and 

 New York. 



(11) Engraving of the first passenger-car on the Camden and Amboy 

 Railway; used on the route from New York to Philadelphia. 



(12) Model of canal packet-boat; used on the Pennsylvania Canal on 

 the through route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. 



(13) Model of canoe used by the Haida Indians. 



(14) Indian of the Northwest returning from the hunt with a bunch 

 of ptarmigan. The full-sized figure illustrates the manner in which 

 snow-shoes are used to aid individual movement. 



In the Exposition Hall, besides the exhibits sent by the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the National Museum, was the interesting display of 

 the State Department. This embraced copies of the most important 

 treaties made by the United States, a fae- simile of the Declaration of 

 Independence, photographs of several historical pictures of much in- 

 terest, and pictures of most of the Presidents of the United States. 



The U. S. Geological Survey had an attractive exhibit of photographs 

 and transparencies, one of the finest of the latter being a view of the 

 Grand Canon of Colorado, looking west. The photographs of dwellings 

 in the Zuni villages, showing the mode of entrance to the houses, and 

 giving an accurate idea of many features in the life of a people just now 

 the object of so much interesting research, attracted the attention of 

 ethnologists and others. 



In the armory building of Marietta the local display proper was to 

 be seen. Here one could find relics of the mound-builders and of the 

 Indian tribes who disappeared at the coming of the white man. Then 

 there were precious heirlooms of the first families of the Northwest ter- 

 ritory, in the shape of antique furniture, clocks, books, deeds, pictures, 

 needlework, old china, silver, pewter, spinning-wheels, and watches. 



There were Washington relics, there were La Fayette relics, there 

 were many articles that had belonged to General Israel Putnam, and 

 to his grandson, the Israel Putnam who was one of the pioneers of Ohio, 

 and there were relics of many other of Ohio's most distinguished chil- 

 dren, civil and military ; there were also many articles that had been 

 the property of Burr and of Blenuerhassett. The historian and the 

 relic hunter alike were attracted by this remarkable collection. 



