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three large rooms having each a window in the inner 
gable in addition. The connecting corridors receive 
their light from windows on the side next the enclosed 
garden. The Keep, round which runs a spacious 
gallery, is about 70 feet square, with cellars in the 
basement, which are of considerable archeological 
interest, and contain the remains of the ancient 
prison, also the old well, which supplied the Castle 
in former times. The whole of the buildings are 
warmed by hot air, and lighted by electric light. 
The visitor enters the Museum through a fine pair 
of oak, iron-studded doors, and an inner glazed lobby, 
with screen and swing doors also of oak, and finds 
himself in a spacious hall, beautifully paved, lke all 
the rooms and corridors (except the Picture Gallery 
and the floor of the Keep), with marble mosaic. In 
the centre of the floor is the City Arms, formed of 
coloured mosaic; immediately in front is the stone 
staircase leading up to the Keep, and embedded in 
the wall on the left are two slabs of red granite, one 
at present blank, but intended for an inscription com- 
memorative of the conversion of the prison into a 
Museum. 
The objects exhibited in the entrance-hall are 
of rather a miscellaneous character, notably a highly- 
sensational group showing a fine tiger in the deadly 
coils of a giant boa-constrictor, which however admir- 
able in execution, must not be accepted as represent- 
ing an event of everyday occurrence, but rather as an 
example of the taxidermist’s skill and inventiveness ; 
a case containing a very fine pair of so-called Polish 
swans (Cygnus tmmutabilis), a species not recognised 
by all naturalists, but which has been met with more 
frequently in Norfolk than perhaps any other part of 
the country, although not quite so striking as its neigh- 
bour, is very beautiful. There are a few other cases 
