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ROOM I. 
UPPER FLOOR. 
FIRST ROOM. 
The ceiling of this room, representing the 
fall of Phaeton, was painted by Charles de La 
Fosse. 
The upright Cases round the room contain a 
series of artificial Curiosities from the more un¬ 
civilized parts of the world. 
Case 1 . Esquimaux dresses, from Winter 
Island: a whalebone net, used by the Esqui¬ 
maux for laying under their beds; a wooden 
bowl; a cup and spoon made of the horns of the 
musk ox; a bone ornament, from Savage Island; 
some Esquimaux arms; a small basket; a pair 
of eye-shades formed of bone ; a bowstring; a 
culinary vessel and lamp, cut out of stone. 
Over the Cases is placed a sledge from Baffin’s 
Bay, which, together with the rest of these ar¬ 
ticles, was brought to England by Capt. Sir Ed¬ 
ward Parry, in 1822. 
Case 2. Esquimaux dresses from Point Hope : 
a steersman’s cap, from West Georgia; men’s 
boots, and an Esquimaux landing-net, formed of 
whalebone, from Kotzebue Sound ; a band, worn 
as a maro, from Egmont Island; a pair of 
woman’s boots, from Cape Thomson; a dart 
thrower, from Point Barrow; and a richly carved 
paddle, from Tahiti. 
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