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cannons — one monster weighing fifty tons ; revolving cannon ; ambulances ; a 

 triumphal arch of imitation marble. In England, locomotive engines ; donkey- 

 engines ; printing presses ; electric printing presses ; wood-cutting machines ; 

 carding machines for wool, cotten and flax ; lanterns for lighthouses ; coaches ; 

 hat-making, sugar-plum-making and sewing machines. Near one of the entrances 

 to this gallery I noticed a gilded pyramid representing the gold produced from 

 the mines of Victoria, in Australia, in fifteen years, viz., 1851-66 ; its base, 10 feet 

 square ; its height, 63 feet ; its solid content, 2,081 cnbic feet ; value represented7 

 one himdred and fifty millions sterling. In the Australian compartment was a, 

 model of a £10,000 nugget." 



The outermost circle of all was the Gallery of Food and Drinks : 

 Aliments et Boissons. This gallery was open to the Park all round 

 the exterior wall of the Palace. A projecting verandah-roof extended 

 out over the whole of it. Underneath, in addition to a scientific 

 display behind glass of all sorts of substances in any way connected 

 with the edible and the potable, there was a series of real restaurants, 

 one after the fashion of one nation another after the fashion of another. 

 These establishments were usually thronged, and the scenes presented 

 in a promenade round the whole of the exterior of the Palace were 

 those of a well-peopled Parisian boulevard. 



Of the wonderful Park in the midst of which the Palace stood, L 

 have already briefly spoken. I may add that a meandering stream, a 

 cascade and a lake, all artificial, gave variety to its French portion. 

 Also two immense aquaria are specially recalled, one of salt water, the 

 other of fresh, underneath which the visitor might go and see a variety 

 of strange fish sporting above his head as though he were at the bottom 

 of the sea. 



A magnificent velum or tapestry awning, green in colour and 

 sprinkled over with golden bees, had a grand classic effect, stretched 

 over the whole of the wide avenue leading from the entrance gate by 

 the Seine up to the principal entrance to the Palace, sustained at 

 regular distances by lofty poles bearing long pendant gonfalons. 



Though the Palace with its innumerable satellite appurtenances 

 quickly vanished like a vapour, records of its existence and system were 

 made. The story of its beautiful exemplification of law and order in 

 the midst of an unparalleled multiplicity remains ; and that, as I have 

 already hinted, may serve in instances here and there to assist a 

 thoughtful youth to methods by means of which he may, if he will, 

 divide and conquer the domain of human knowledge, and especially 

 that province of it which is occupied by Natural Science and its practical 

 applications. 



