CHELSEA. I OS 



5,300 volumes of manuscripts in Medicine and Natural 

 History, bound in beautiful bindings. 



A book of Chinese Paper with several beautiful 

 pictures in it. 



Besides the aforenamed long and narrow room there 

 were eight other rooms, in which all the walls were full of 

 books, from the floor to the ceiling. Each of these 

 rooms was about 14 ft. high, the length and breadth 

 about 15 to 18 ft., sometimes more, sometimes less. 

 [Other various objects of Natural History.] 



[T. I. p. 436. j The shoes of several different Races 

 Folkslags Skor; but the Finns' Birch-bark shoes, 

 FinnarnasNafver-Skor,*and the Russians'bast-shoes, 

 Russarnas Bast-Skorf , made of lime-bark were con- 

 spicuous by their absence. 



[Various other objects.] 

 In another room were several of such books as 

 consisted of colored pictures [T. I. p. 437] of all sorts 

 of Natural objects. Such were Mariana's, Catesby's, 

 Sebe's, Madame Blackwell's, &c, costly works, Egyp- 

 tian Mummies, Roman and other Antiquities, &c. In 

 the garden we saw Sir Hans Sloane's Chair [T. I. p. 438] 

 with three wheels under it, two in front and a little one 

 behind, in which he was drawn about in his garden. 



[T. I. p. 438.] The 26th May, 1748. 

 Thermometers Jamforelse Comparison of Thermometers. 

 After I was tired of seeing all this [Sir Hans Sloane's 



* Finnarna; Ndfver-Skor, the white birch-bark. The Lapp name 

 for the birch is Sake, as Linnaeus ( Flora Lapponica Amst. 1737, 8vo. p. 262) 

 remarks. " Calceos dum piscatum eunt, gerunt ex ramentis (p. 263) 

 corticis betulini," &c. " when they go a fishing they wear long boots made of 

 pieces of birch-bark," &c. [J. L.] 



f Russarnas Bast-Skor. Ger " Bast Schuhe, Basteln, Russ. " Lapshy 

 iplur.), des Souliers de cordes d'ecorce d'arbre." J. Heym. Deutsch-Russ- 

 Franz W iirlerbuch . 1805, obi. 8vo. [J. L.J 



