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Between the windows of this apartment stands 
a table, composed of a variety of lavas and other 
volcanic ejections from Mount Vesuvius, pre¬ 
sented by the Earl of Exeter, 
(/n the window to the left.) Large rock 
crystals from Madagascar, one of them including 
a considerable quantity of chlorite. 
{To the left of the Jire-place.) A calcareous 
hollow incrustation taken out of a square water- 
pipe. 
NINTH ROOM. 
In this room are deposited petrifactions or fos¬ 
sil remains of animals and vegetables, which will 
soon undergo a new arrangement. 
Madrepores and other corals, &c. 
Casts and impressions of ammonites or cornua 
ammonis. 
Various petrified univalves in clusters. 
Various bivalves petrified. 
Various fossil remains: among these is a large 
fossil jaw from Maestricht in the Netherlands 
which is referable to the genus Lacerta of Lin¬ 
naeus. 
Fragments of fossil bones of mammiferous 
animals, amongst which is an under jaw of the 
gigantic North American animal, the mastodonte 
of Cuvier. 
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ROOM VIII. 
Nat, Hist. 
ROOM IX. 
CASES 
1 and 2. 
3 
4. 
and 6. 
and S. 
A fossil 
