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Fig. 7, is the device of an old sailor, delineating the 

 real and imaginary denizens of the sea with an equal 

 amount of exactitude. Fig. 8, is the Pierrot of the old 

 French stage, and is apparently a work of the latter 

 part of the seventeenth century. Fig. 9, has its handle 



formed like the head of an adze, to be used in clearing 

 the pipe ; in the centre of the stem is the rude repre- 

 sentation of a barrel. Busts of a grotesque kind were 

 general favourites, or figures of a jolly sailor; but a 

 very large number took the form of the human leg or 

 arm, which was fabricated as if bent, and made a very 

 useful implement. Fig. 10, is a copper pick of the 

 simplest and cheapest form ; it was dredged from the 

 Thames, and may be the oldest of our series. Many 



