lO'l DIRECTIONS FOR TOURISTS. 



OFFICES— MUSEUM. 



In the Excliange Building, netxr the foot of McBj'ide's Hill, 

 the Anglo-American Telegraph Co. ha\e recently opened a new 

 office Avhicli is well arranged and creditable to the Company. 

 Hours of business from 8.30 a. m to 9 p. m. There is a branch 

 office in the eastern end of the city, and also in the Post office. 

 The Post office, already referred to, is a fine building towards 

 the western eml of Water street. Its arrangements for the ac- 

 commodation of the public are all that could be desired. The 

 upper portion of it is devoted to the purposes of a Public Museum 

 Avhicli will well re^jay a virsit. Here are arranged specimens of 

 all the minerals and coal found in the island, together with spe- 

 cimens of the Iniilding-stone, marbles, granites, etc., and of the 

 timber. The geologist can here study the fo.ssils found in the 

 various formations of the country which are named and classi- 

 fied. The antiquarian will find here a most interesting collec- 

 tion of tlie relics of the extinct aboriginal mliabitants of the 

 island. Here are .skulls, bones, almost entire skeletons of the 

 unfortunate lost tribes of Beothiks. The skeleton of a boy found 

 in a grave in Pilley's Island, with the skin and nails iierfectly 

 l^reserved, is regarded as a great curiosity. Their stone imple- 

 ments, arrow-heads, gouges, hatchets, etc., are objects of much 

 interest. Local objects of natural history are in great profusion 

 — such as stutfed specimens of caribou, bears, seals, birds, fishes. 

 There is also a collection of the mollusca of the island. Here too 

 is preserved an arm of the now celebrated " Devil Fish" or 

 gigantic Cuttle Fish — named after its discoverer, the present 

 Avriter, Archefuthis Harveyi. When first discovered, in 1873, it 

 made a sensation in the scientific world. Its body was ten feet 

 in length, and its longest arms each thirty feet. (For full particu- 

 lars of this Giant Cuttle see '■'■Hatton and Harv(nJA Xewfoundland," 

 or article " Newfoumlland" in the Em-ycloprcdui Britannica.) A 

 forenoon spent in the Museum will well reward the tourist. 



WKY DOCK. 



Continuing the walk westward along Water Street, the Long 

 3i'idge is reached, near the head of the haibour, where is the 



