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Infedts and Reptiles. 
A Plantation of Cochineal, with the People ga¬ 
thering and drying it. 
Several Flowers and Plants. 
We have now done with our Remarks on this 
fecond Department. In our Way to the next, we 
2re led down the Back Stairs, where we muft take . 
notice of two Canoes, the one brought from America , 
the other from Greenland, differing both in Form and 
Materials : The nrft is very ingenioufly covered with 
the Bark of a kind of Birch Tree, which is fixed 
to final 1 Ribs on the Infide •, the whole Boat is re¬ 
markably light, infomuch that two Men may eafily 
carry it many Miles from one Lake or River to 
another, which is very neceffary in America , on 
account of the great Falls. The other Canoe is 
entirely covered over with Seals Skins, at a diftance 
bearing fome refemblance to Parchment; the upper 
part of it is as it were decked with the fame Mate¬ 
rials, there being only a finall Hole left open in 
the middle for the Man to fit in and manage his 
Paddle. 
On the Wainfcot going down thefe Stairs, is a 
large Piece of Painting reprefenting feveral kinds 
of dead Game. 
We now approach the third and laft Department, 
that of printed Books. The Reader’s Time will 
not be much taken up by the Remarks we fhall 
make on this Part of the Mufeum, as they will be 
but fnorr. 
The firft Room we enter, contains fome Sea 
Compaffes, improved by Dr. Knight , fuch as are 
now ufed in the Royal Navy, and feveral Magnets 
and Apparatufes, ferving to fhew the magnetical 
Powers in phiiofophical Ufes. 
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