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In this Room is to be Teen a Table of the Ponti¬ 
fical Medals, beginning with Martin the Fifth, 
(who was the firft of the Popes that ftruck them 
good) and carried on in a chronological Series to 
the prefent Times. 
SECTION II. 
H Aving accompanied my Reader, I hope in 
fome fort to his Satisfaction, through the 
firft Department, and given a fliort Account of 
the Contents of the feveral Rooms it confifts of, I 
fhall now enter upon the fecond in Courle, that is, 
the Department of natural and artificial Produc¬ 
tions, in which is to be feen, perhaps, the largeft 
and moft curious Collection that the World has to 
boaft of; at leaft, it may be faid, that never was a 
Mufeum of fuch Confequence formed by any Per- 
fon under the Degree of i Sovereign Prince before. 
* There is fcarcely a Country, though ever fo diftant, 
that has not greatly contributed to enrich this De-’ 
partment. We may here fee the Progrefs of Art 
rn the different Ages of the World, exemplified in 
a Variety of Utenfiis that each Nation in each Cen¬ 
tury has produced. Natural Hiftory may in this 
Place be ftudied from Nature herfelf, fo great is the 
Variety here contained of the moft curious Produc¬ 
tions of the Earth, Air, and Water. 
In going through the almoft infinite Number of 
Curiofities which the Department contains, I (hall, 
for the greater Eafe of my Readers, obferve a Me¬ 
thod fomewhat regular; firft giving the Infcriptions 
on the feveral Repofitories, and afterwards txplain- 
i ing 
