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gallery. This gallery, by the way, which faces the visitor on 

 arriving at the principal entrance, and is devoted entirely to 

 British exhibits, is 750 ft. in length, 50 ft. wide, and 30 ft. at its 

 greatest height— the finest gallery in the Exhibition. 



Next to Great Britain, Canada and the United States have the 

 largest spaces allotted to them, and the collections in both these 

 sections promise to be of an unusually interesting character. As 

 one of the Horticultural Gardens' ponds is in the rear of the 

 Canadian section, it is proposed to have an Indian afloat in his 

 birch-bark canoe to show his method of paddling and steering, as 

 well as of spearing fish ; and Professor Brown Goode, one of the 

 U. S. Fish Commissioners in charge of the American collections, 

 has brought over a model fisherman's hut, which is to be erected 

 in his department. Visitors will thus have presented to them, in 

 the most realistic manner, scenes of daily life in the far North- 

 West, and will see before them almost at a glance the fisherman's 

 home, his boat, nets, spears, hooks, and other implements, as well 

 as specimens of the fish captured. Sweden and Norway, to which 

 countries a considerable space has been allotted, send similarly 

 instructive proofs of the importance which is attached to their 

 national fisheries. 



Next to these in point of size, the area covered by Belgium 

 and the Netherlands is pretty extensive, far exceeding that occu- 

 pied by Germany, which, strange to say, is one of the smallest 

 sections in the Exhibition. Considering the proximity of Ger- 

 many to England, and the facilities for transport as compared 

 with the carriage of collections from India, China, Japan, and 

 Tasmania, visitors will doubtless be surprised to find Germany 

 so inadequately represented. 



The collections from China and Japan are of a very unique 

 kind, and for many people will probably have a greater attraction 

 than any others in the Exhibition. The models of trading-junks, 

 fishing-boats, rafts, river- side houses, all built to scale, with model 

 oyster-beds, stake-nets, and every kind of tackle used by Chinese 

 and Japanese fishermen, will well repay prolonged examination. 

 Two native artists, a carpenter and painter, who came over with 

 the collections, have been busily employed since their arrival in 

 decorating the building allotted to them with carvings and frescoes 

 of native design, the effect of which is very quaint, yet quite in 

 keeping with the character of the native collections. 



