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Japan ; but when we arrived, many beautiful c ^ p - 
vessels, made of this porcelain, were also filled ' — * — > 
with earth and flowers. Several fine busts, from 
the celebrated cabinet of Count Caylus, adorned 
the apartments : also a marble vase which be- 
longed to the famous Mengs, and had been 
brought from Rome to Moscoiv, by the Grand- 
chamberlain Suvalof. We do not pretend to 
the smallest knowledge of conchology : it might 
therefore astonish us more than others, to see a 
single shell, called the Great Hammer, of no 
external beauty, but shaped like the instrument 
of that name, for which the late Mr. Forster of 
London received of the Count one thousand 
roubles'. 
After a particular description of Count Golov- 
kins Museum, it is unnecessary to mention those 
of less note in Moscow. We shall therefore pass 
hastily over a few of the principal Collections. 
The gallery of pictures of the Grand-chamberlain o jjtar * 
Galitzin was the most extensive: the palace 
itself being highly magnificent; and a set of 
stately apartments, terminated by a vast gallery, 
was entirely filled with paintings. In so vast 
(l) “ He furnishes his closet first, and fills 
The crouded shelves with rarities of shells : 
Adds Orient pearls, which from the conchs he drew. 
And all the sparkling stones of various hue.” 
Dryden. 
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