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material, but most of the private houses are of brick. 

 The buildings and streets are much superior to those of 

 Liverpool, and the Bank, University, and other places are 

 magnificent ; the streets, however, are not very cleanly, 

 nor are the roads at all good, and the lower orders of the 

 people are villainous in aspect, and disgustingly filthy 

 and ragged. 



I arrived in Dublin about twelve, and after taking a 

 cup of coffee proceeded to the College, and thereafter 

 to the College of Surgeons, where I found Dr. Houston, 

 Conservator of the Museum. 



The building is splendid, and has a fine situation in 

 Stephen's Green. 



The hall is a fine room, with an arched roof, of an 

 oblong form. 



The hall of the Museum is about ninety feet long 

 and forty -five feet broad that is by estimate. It is 

 lighted solely from the roof, and has a gallery all round. 

 The space below the gallery, which is too broad, is very 

 dark. The skeletons are arranged in glass boxes or cases, 

 on the floor, and on shelves, under the gallery, the 

 central part of the floor being unoccupied save by a 

 miserable glazed table, containing skulls and calculi. 

 There is a considerable number of skeletons, but almost 

 all most uningeniously articulated, and in the most 

 preposterous attitudes. About six are excellent, how- 

 ever, viz. a horse, an alpaca, a nylghau, a lion, and one 

 or two more skeletons of grampus, good. In this 

 department almost everything is in the most wretched 

 disorder. 



