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imposing structure, and lastly the Circle Hotel, which ends 

 this remarkable thoroughfare. 



Next to Broadway, the most important street is Fifth 

 Avenue, extending over four miles in length, and entirely 

 occupied with palatial private residences and hotels, among 

 which are the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the Albermale Hotel, 

 frequented by the aristocracy. There are also many line 

 churches, art galleries, clubs, music halls, etc., etc. The most 

 wealthy families have their costly or palatial residences here. 

 That of Mr. A. Stewart is a large and magnificent marble 

 palace. 



Among the other fine monuments scattered everywhere in 

 the city, I shall mention the Cooper Union, an Institute founded 

 by the late Mr. Cooper for the advancement of Science and Art; 

 the German Savings Bank Building, the New York College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, the Hippodrome, the Grand 

 Ceniral Depot, the Columbia College, the Bible House, the 

 Masonic Temple, the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 128 west, 

 14th street, founded about 1874, which contains a very fine 

 collection of paintings, drawings, works of art, and ethnologi- 

 cal objects. In 1875, the Trustees of the Museum bought 

 the celebrated collection of Antiquities from the Island of 

 Cyprus, known as the Cernolia Collection, from its discover, 

 at a cost of $49,360.72 or ^10,000. This interesting and 

 magnificent Collection was in London in 1873- 1874. The 

 well-known firm of M. M. Feuardent and Company had it 

 exhibited at that time in their house in Great Russell-street, 

 W.C., where I saw it. Afterwards during a visit that I made 

 in New York in 1876, I had the pleasure to see it again in 

 tjie Metropolitan Museum, where they made a grand show. 

 My friend, the late Mr. Bland, a celebrated Conchiologist, who 

 was for many years Assistant Secretary to the Museum, and 

 who had assisted in the arrangement of the collection took me 

 there, and I spent several agreeable hours in admiring again 

 these beautiful statuettes, heads, vases, etc., quite unique in 

 their way. 



If I remember well, the British Museum had the first 

 refusal of this Collection, and I have always wondered why 

 it had not purchased it. Lastly comes the Menagerie, and 

 the Natural History Museum of New York in Central Park ; 

 the great pleasure ground of New York. Lately, great 

 progress have been made in the Menagerie and in the 

 Museum, and both are taking a front rank amongst the 

 Zoological Gardens and Museums of America. Since the 



