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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 less civilized parts of 
the world. 
Case 1. Esquimaux dresses, from Winter Island: a 
whalebone net, used by the Esquimaux for laying under 
their beds ; a wooden bowl; a cup and spoon made of 
the horns of the musk ox; a bone ornament, from Sa¬ 
vage Island; some Esquimaux arms ; a small basket; a 
pair of eye-shades formed of bone ; a bowstring; a cu¬ 
linary vessel and lamp, cut out of stone. Over the 
Cases is placed a sledge from Baffin’s Bay, which, to¬ 
gether with the rest of these articles, was brought to 
England by Capt. Sir Edward Parry, in 1 822. 
Case 2. Esquimaux dresses from Point Hope: a 
steersman’s cap, from West Georgia; men’s boots, and 
an Esquimaux landing-net, formed of wdialebone, from 
Kotzebue Sound ; a band, worn as a maro, from Eg- 
mont Island; a pair of woman’s boots, from Cape 
Thomson ; a dart thrower, from Point Barrow ; and a 
richly carved paddle, from Tahiti. 
Case 3. Various specimens of cloth, formed of the 
Paper Mulberry, from the Sandwich Islands, some of 
them with stamped patterns ; a harpoon-line, made of 
the skin of a Wallruss, and a sail of the intestines of the 
same animal, from Kotzebue Sound ; two large teeth of 
the Wallruss, from Behring’s Straits; a stone club used 
for bruising nuts, and three fine mats, from Egmont 
Island; a cap, ornamented with tufts of feather and 
hair; several hows and arrows, some of the latter tipped 
with obsidian and bone, from California; and a small 
harpoon, with a moveable tip, for spearing fish, from 
Point Barrow. 
On the sides of these Cases, near the door, are placed 
three spears from Tongataboo, a spear from the interior 
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