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ployed the time and fortune of a single individual. V iin 
It consisted of electrical apparatus, telescopes, the ' 
whole furniture of a chemical laboratory, models, 
pieces of mechanism, the most curious and ex- 
pensive balances, and almost every instrument 
of the useful Arts 1 . 
The collection of minerals, shells, birds, Jishes, Batumi 
quadrupeds, and the cabinet ot medals of I aul 
Gregorovilz Demidof, had been considered by 
travellers more worth seeing than any other 
Museum in Moscow *. We did not obtain admis- 
sion. His library contained five thousand 
volumes, chiefly on subjects of Natural History. 
The minerals of Prince Urusof, and of Prince Paul 
Galitzin, were of the highest beauty and mag- 
nificence. The former of these princes gave five 
thousand roubles for a single specimen. But 
among all the surprising articles in Natural His- 
tory that we saw in Moscow, the most worthy ot 
admiration were two mineralogical specimens, 
the one of Malachite, and the other ot Siberian 
emerald, in the audience-chamber of Prince 
ll) “ To tell their costly furniture were long ; 
The summer's day would end before the song ; 
To purchase but the tenth of all their store, 
Would make the mighty Persian monarch poor. 
Yet what I can, I will.” Pryden. 
(2) Voyage de Deux Francis, tom. III. p. 327.': 
