THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDINGS. 
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to the different machines. In fact, the department of 
machinery in motion being entirely separated from the other 
parts of the Exhibition, there will be no risk of injury to 
any of the more delicate articles of manufacture, nor to those 
instruments which require to be kept dry and free from 
an atmosphere charged with vapour where steam machinery is 
employed. 
From this description, it will be seen that the machinery 
department will of itself be a distinct and separate exhi- 
bition; probably the most perfect of its kind ever brought 
before the public. It will contain some of the most ingenious 
mechanical contrivances of this inventive age, and, from its 
extent, will furnish a collection of machines employed in almost 
every branch of manufacture, not only in this country, but from 
every part of Europe and America. In this World’s Fair will be 
exhibited competitive machinery of every description, from the 
most ponderous steam-engines to the delicate lace and sewing- 
machines. How suggestive of prog-ress to the mechanic and 
artizan, and how interesting, will be the comparison of these 
unique operations when presented to the eye of every con- 
siderate and reflecting spectator ! This combination of talent 
and the whole cunningly devised machinery of the useful arts 
being employed on them respective operations, is no common 
sight; and it is only in this deeply interesting department 
that we shall learn to admire and fully to appreciate the 
value of the inventive powers of the present age, and the 
purposes to which they are applied in the useful and the in- 
dustrial arts. 
Exclusive of the Annexe for machinery, there is another of the 
same character ranging along the eastern side of the Horticul- 
tural Hardens, for the reception of agricultural implements and 
the larger specimens of metallurgy, mineralogy, and geology, 
and of heavy machines which do not require motion. To the 
farmer, agriculturist, and rural population this portion of the 
Exhibition will afford examples of every improvement that has 
taken place for the last twenty years ; and the young- agricul- 
turist need only employ his observation in order to make 
himself master of what is being done to attain still greater 
perfection in the tillage and the increased production of the 
soil. Here will be found every variety of hand-plough, scarifier, 
and grubber ; and here, also, will be exhibited various descrip- 
tions of steam-ploughs, reaping-machines, straw-cutters, &c., 
&c. ; and the most casual observer will not fail to derive benefit 
from such a display of the great and important features which, 
in machinery alone, have changed the face of the country, and 
almost quadrupled the produce of the land. 
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