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stones, and feathers of birds vying with gems. 
Here the remains of the world, before the Deluge, 
excited the awful idea of that catastrophe ; and 
are so many evident testimonies to the truth of 
Moses’s history.” 
“ Then a noble vista presented itself through 
several rooms filled with books, and many hundred 
volumes of dried plants ; a room full of choice and 
valuable manuscripts ; the noble present sent by 
the French King to Sir Hans, being prints of his 
collection of paintings, medals, statues, palaces, &c. 
in twenty-five large atlas volumes, besides other 
valuable things, too numerous to mention here.’’ 
“ Below stairs, some rooms were filled with 
curious remains of antiquities, from Egypt, 
Greece, Etruria, Rome, Britain, and even 
America ; others with large animals preserved in 
the skin ; the great saloon lined on every side 
with bottles filled with spirits, containing various 
animals. The halls were adorned with the horns 
of various creatures, as of the double horned 
rhinoceros of Africa, and deers’ horns from Ireland, 
nine feet wide, and with weapons of different 
countries ; among which it appears, that the 
Mangalese, and not our most Christian neigh- 
oours, the French, had the honour of inventing 
that butcherly weapon, the bayonet. Fifty 
volumes in folio would scarcely suffice to contain 
a detail of this immense museum, consisting of 
above two hundred thousand articles. 
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