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instruments, peeped through his telescope, and from 
the top of the tower had a most beautiful panoramic 
view of Florence and the surrounding country. We 
then passed through the museum of natural history, 
which is in the same building, and is prettily arranged ; 
saw the famous flowers and fruits done in wax, but 
not the figures which represent the Plague, which were 
in the anatomical museum adjoining, and which I did 
not care to see. In the collection were some recent 
models made under Amici’s superintendence to illus- 
trate his discoveries, etc. They were wonderfully fine, 
and would be useful in a class-room. Amici is a good 
observer with the microscope, but his anatomical or 
physiological notions are in some cases very wide of 
the mark, and quite surprised me. 
On leaving, Mr. Sloane and myself separated, he 
going to fulfill some engagement, and I to the Palazzo 
Pitti, as it is still called from the founder, though it 
early passed into the hands of the Medici family, who 
finished it, and now it is the ducal residence. I must 
tell you, by the way, that I should have seen a remark- 
able person in Florence, had she not been sick. Sloane 
is very intimate with her and wished me to see her ; 
she is the ex-queen of Naples, the widow of Murat 
and the sister of Napoleon. .. . 
On returning to the hotel, however, I learned that I 
could not get a place with the courier next day, that 
the diligence which left at mid-day did not arrive at 
Bologna until Sunday afternoon, so I engaged a 
cabriolet, to start with me after dinner, arranged my 
affairs, called on Mr. Sloane to bid him an unexpected 
adieu, dined at the table d’hdte at five, and at dark I 
was climbing the outskirts of the Apennines. 
I would have liked to call upon our sculptor 
