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or other injurious insect could get at them, and spoil 

 them [T. I. p. 433.J The sides were of wood. In some 

 both lid and bottom, lacket och botten, were of a very 

 clear glass, but in most only the lid. At the joints the 

 glass was stuck or glued fast with paper. Where the 

 bottom was of glass, the insect was gummed on to the 

 middle of the bottom. [T. I. p. 377.] 



Some of the East and West Indian Butterflies, 

 Piarilar, were far more showy than a peacock with his 

 matchless variety of colours. A very large number of 

 all kinds of corals and other harder sea plants, Sj6 

 vaxter, a multitude of various sorts of crystals, several 

 head-dresses of different races of men, musical instru- 

 ments, &c. Various stuffed birds and fish, where the 

 birds, Foglarna, often stood fast on small bits of board 

 as naturella as if they still lived. Skeletons of various 

 four-footed beasts, among which we particularly noticed 

 that of a young elephant, the stuffed skin of a camel, and an 



African many-striped ass, mangrandig Asna. Several 

 human skeletons larger and smaller, the head and other 

 parts of a frightfully large whale [T. I. p. 438.] This 

 Hvalfisk was said to have been go feet long. The 

 length of its head bone was nearly 18 feet [T. I. p. 377. J 

 Honungs-fogeln, humming birds from the West Indies, 

 which there made a show with their many colours, and 

 sat in their nest under glass as though they had been 

 living; the bird's-nest, Pogel-bo, which they eat in Asia 

 as any other food ; [T. I. p. 431] which they eat in the 

 East Indies. It was white, and looked almost as if it 

 had been made of white wax [T. I. p. 377.] A great 

 collection of snakes, lizards, fishes, birds, caterpillars, 

 insects, small four-footed animals [various anatomical 

 specimens] etc. all put in spiritu vini in bottles, and well 

 preserved ; dried skins of snakes from the East and West 

 Indies, of many ells length and proportionately broad ; 



