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The Table Cases contain a general collection of Shells, 

 the great variety and singularity of which, no doubt the 

 Visitor will admire ; but a lengthened description of 

 which, doubtless he would pass over. We therefore re- 

 serve the place it would occupy, for a short notice of 

 those beautiful and wonderful works of art to which we 

 shall soon conduct the Visitor. He first will enter the 



Long Gallery, 



in which are arranged, in upwards of sixty cases, a col- 

 lection of Minerals ; and as each case has legibly writ- 

 ten on its side the orders by which the metals are dis- 

 tinguished, it will render it unnecessary for us to insert 

 them. 



The secondary fossils arranged in cases round the 

 room, must be generally interesting, being, it is scarce ly 

 necessary to add, the osseous remains of animals dug out 

 of the earth, many of which are said to have existed be- 

 fore the flood. Among them may be seen in the class 

 Reptilia, the bones of animals in the order Emydosaurian 

 and Enaliosaurian, amongst which is part of the head of 

 the Crocodile and Gessaurus ; the lower jaw and part of 

 the cranium and vertibrse of a huge reptile from St 

 Peter's Mountain, called Morosaurus ; also the head of 

 that enormous antediluvian Ichthyosaurus, and part of 

 the head of another of still larger dimensions, cut trans- 

 versely to show the internal structure of the jaws ; and 

 a smaller species of the same found in the county of 

 Nottingham, twelve feet below the earth's surface ; 

 also a perfect specimen of the Plesiosaurus, from Lyme 

 Regis. In the order Batrachian is the gigantic Sala- 

 mander. 



The two upright glass cases of the centre compart- 

 ment of the left wall, entering from the gallery, contain 

 the Osseous Remains of the orders Edentata and Pa- 

 chydermata. In the former order are Casts from vari- 

 ous parts of the skeleton of the Megatherium or Great 

 Monster : the bones of which were discovered in South 

 America, on one of those great plains washed by the 



