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which fee hopes to have, moft of them will, no doubt, 
think that Part of the Colie&ion which particularly 
fuits his Tafte and engages his Attention, too 
flightly treated of. But it is impofTible to pleale 
every one. Such muft with Patience wait till the 
general Account of the Mufeum is published at 
large by the Officers of the Houfe. Their Curio- 
lity will then be fully fatisfied ; as, the Abilities of 
the Authors confidered, the Catalogue will doubt- 
lefs be fuch, as to merit the particular Attention 
and Encouragement of the Public. 
The Reader muft now be direfted to the firft of 
the fmall Tables, which contains a Number of 
Handles for Daggers, Knives and Forks; fame 
Seals, Heads of Canes, or walking Sticks, and the 
Hilt of a Sword. Thefe are all made either of 
Agate, Mocoe Ston'e, Onyx, Cornehan, Ja per, 
Blooaftone, or Nephritic Stone, isic. There ate 
alfo fome Turkifh and Perfian Daggers, fuch as it 
was formerly cuftomary for them to wear at their 
Girdles, and fome Knives with the Blades inlaid 
with Gold. This has been by certain credulous 
People thought to have been changed from the 
Iron by fome Alchymift who poffeffed the much 
talked of Secret of the Philofophtr’s Stone. 
In the other fmall Table in this Room are pre- 
ferved a great Number and Variety of Cups, Difh- 
es, Boxes, Cfc. made of Agate, Mocoe Stone, 
Cornelian, and Jafpers. They differ much one 
from the other as well in Form as Colour. 
There is very li r tle more to be noticed in this 
Part of the Colle&ion, if we except a Set of Fi¬ 
gures reprefenting Mines, in the ordinary Dreffes 
they wear, in Bohemia , Saxony , and other Parts of 
Germany. With them are to be feen the Tools they 
gfe in their Work; and there is alfo a View of a 
Mine, 
