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dresses, bearing all their implements, as for chap. 
their usual labour; each person having in his > „^., - 
hand the lamp with which he descends into 
the mine. By an ingenious and well-contrived 
movement of the whole corps, when the Arch- 
dukes came to view them from the balcony, 
they were placed in such array, that their 
lamps, as they stood, exhibited the initials 
A and R, in illuminated letters, covering 
the whole square. This evolution was effected 
in an instant; so suddenly and so perfectly, 
that it had a very grand effect. 
Mai/ 23. — Professor Mohling exhibited and Collection 
explained to us the collection of models used 
in his lectures to the students. Every part 
of the machinery, the furnaces, and other works 
belonging to the mines, are modelled upon a small 
scale, and most ingeniously adapted for the in- 
struction of the students. The whole cost of this 
apparatus, as of the instruments used in the 
laboratory of the College, is defrayed by the 
Crown ; and every possible encouragement and 
assistance is given to the young men, in the 
progress of their studies: they are allowed 
masters in all the branches of science useful in 
mining, particularly in trigonometry, mechanics, 
hydrostatics, chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. 
