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ETHNOGRAPHICAL ROOM. 
The Visitor to the Museum having passed the Entrance in Great 
Russell Street, is at present conducted, by a temporary Staircase, to a 
Landing, from which he can either descend to the Gallery of Anti¬ 
quities hereafter described, or in the more regular course of his Circuit, 
ascend to the 
Ethnographical Room. 
At the right hand side of the door, entering the Room, is a gilt 
image of Gaudma, a Burmese idol, and the symbolical representation 
of his foot. Presented by Captain Marry at, R. N. 
On entering the room, in glass cases are models of various crom¬ 
lechs or sepulchres of the ancient Britons, viz., of the Chun Quoit, 
Cornwall; the Trevethy stone, near St. Cleer ; the Lanyan Quoit, near 
Penzance; one at Duffrin, S. Wales; and the double cromlech at 
Plas Newydd, Anglesey. All presented by R. Tongue , Esq. Model 
.of Lord Nelson’s ship, the Victory, and the brigantine Mercury. 
A Chinese bell, from a Buddhist temple near Ningpo. The upper 
part ornamented with an imperial dragon, the national emblem of China, 
crouching, and forming the handle. Beneath this is the orifice where 
the clapper has been placed. The upper part is ornamented with 
figures of Buddh, cast in salient relief, and covered with an inscription, 
also in relief, separated by four broad bands, of large characters, eight 
lines of poetry relative to the Buddhist religion, out of one of the 
religious books of this sect. The smaller inscriptions in a Sanscrit 
character, are entitled the Prayer of Fuh (Buddh); with a list of 
names of believing doctors and faithful ladies. The inscriptions at the 
lower part contain a similar list of names, and the names and titles of 
the makers, of the authorities of the Teen-pe-ling temple, and of 
the civil and military officers of the city of Ningpo under whom the 
bell was cast, in the 19th regnal year of Taou Kwang, the present 
emperor, the 36th cyclary year, on a morning of the eighth moon 
(a. d. 1839-40). Presentedby HER MAJESTY, 1844. 
Immediately beyond the Bell, stands, within a case, a Model of a 
moveable Temple, called in the Carnatic, Therup, or Rhudum. 
Presented by Charles Marsh , Esq., 1793. 
Plaster cast of the shield of Achilles. Modelled by Flaxman. 
Cases 1, 2. Shelf 1. Objects from China; three soldiers’hats; bow 
and arrows, one to give a signal by whistling; matchlock; vane of a 
boat; sailor’s hat; military boots; shoes; one pair for a lady; slow 
match, and sight of a cannon. Presented by Sir E. Belcher , R.N. 
Label of a cannon. Presented by Hugh Welch Diamond , Esq . Shelf 
2. Various figures of Chinese divinities and ascetics of the different 
sects; animals, &c. Shelf 3. Teen ping or Chinese steelyards, used in 
weighing out silver for ordinary purposes of life; swan pan or abaci; 
money-changer’s board, which holds a hundred of their cash or small 
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