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say. 26 He derides the discoveries of Bartholinus and Borrichius. 27 

 His Journey to London gives a pretended account of his visit to 

 the virtuosi there. "I heard of several Persons that had great 

 Collections of Rarities, Pictures, and Statues". 28 Among these 

 rarities are the following: A Roman glass, a rummer of two 

 quarts, "a copy of writing said to be the Devil's writing", a Mil 

 ler's thumb, several sorts of tadpoles and sticklebacks. 29 He holds 

 a conversation with certain ones of the experimenters. "I had 

 several Discourses with Mr. Muddifond, about an old Cat and a 

 young Kitling in an Air-Pump, and how the Cat died after 16 

 Pumps, but the Kitling surviv'd 500 Pumps". 30 He received as 

 souvenirs from these virtuosi, Mr. Muddifond and Mr. Goodenough, 

 two human hearts. In the Tower he finds a whole menagerie, 

 11 Lyons, Tygers, Catamountains, two Owls, and a calf -skin stuft". 

 Being himself a virtuoso, he sees nothing of interest in the Royal 

 Mint except ''a coin from Palmyra". 31 Mr. Shuttleworth shows 

 him such great curiosities as "a Stone out of Scotland with the 

 names of all those killed at chevy Chase", "the skin of a Cap Ass, 

 some Land Snails, a thin Oyster, some papers of Swammerdam 

 with Figures of Tadpoles, an Egyptian Rattle, and great Cases 

 full of Playthings from France". Connected with these virtuosi 

 are the quack doctors whose advertisements "covered the walls 

 everywhere about the town". Here is a specimen; "AQUA 

 TETRACHYMAGOGON, Rear, Try, Judge, and Speak as You 

 Find". 32 This traveller also visits the famous Chelsea Gardens 

 and inspects the medicinal plants there. 33 At the close of the 

 Journey is an apology for not furnishing the reader with drawings 

 of "the Wren's Nest, the Stickleback, the Two Snails, and the 

 two Grasshoppers". "My Bookseller said the Graver was out of 

 the way". 34 



26 Miscellanies, pp. 191-3. 



27 Ibid. p. 189. 



28 Ibid. p. 223. 



29 Ibid. 



80 Ibid. p. 225. 



81 Ibid. p. 228. 



Miscellanies, p. 233. 

 88 Ibid. p. 235; p. 242. 

 "Ibid, p. 304. 



