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cended one of the hills commanding the city, where we enjoyed 
a beautiful prospect An observatory situated here, announces 
the arrival of ships in the bay by signals. 
Dr. Macauley showed me the medical college, constructed at 
the expense of the state of Maryland, a spacious and handsome 
building, decorated with a portico. It contains an amphitheatre, 
sky-lighted rotunda for anatomical lectures, a semi-amphitheatre 
for chemical lectures, to which are joined a laboratory and a ca¬ 
binet with philosophical apparatus. The anatomical cabinet did 
not appear to be very rich, as the school is yet in its infancy. I 
remarked a female wax figure representing a rupture of the ute¬ 
rus, and several human embrios, abortions, and monsters. I saw 
likewise a considerable collection of minerals, among which I sa¬ 
luted as an old acquaintance, a basaltic column from the giant’s 
causeway in Ireland. Seven professors lecture in the medical 
college; the lectures are delivered during four months, from No¬ 
vember to the end of February. Near to the college is an in¬ 
firmary belonging to this institution, where the sick are nursed by 
an order of religious women called sisters of charity. 
The Baltimore Museum was established by the second son of 
the same artist, C. W. Peale, wh*o founded the Philadelphia Mu¬ 
seum. His sons were destined from their cradle to become ar¬ 
tists, as their Christian names are Rafaelle, Rubens, Titian, 
&c. One of the saloons of the museum is occupied by the 
paintings of Rembrandt Peale. He succeeds very well in 
some of his copies ; for instance, King Lear braving the tempest, 
from West; perhaps he is less successful in his originals, espe¬ 
cially in his full length equestrian portrait of Napoleon. 
Several paintings in miniature, by Miss Peale, niece of C. W. 
Peale, are tolerably good. 
The museum is not so extensive as that of Philadelphia; still 
it contains some very interesting objects, which however, I had 
not time to examine sufficiently in detail. The museum is ar¬ 
ranged in two stories of the buildings; the first contains various 
quadrupeds and birds, I perceived a specimen of the duck-bill 
animal from New South Wales. The birds are all indigenous, 
and are described in Wilson’s Ornithology. The collection of 
American insects and butterflies is very handsome; among them 
are several centipedes, large scorpions, and the mammoth spider 
from South America, which kills the humming bird. These 
insects are well preserved in frames of white plaster. The 
plaster is cast on moulds, the insect is put into the cavity, and 
fastened by pins stuck in the plaster while it is sufficiently hot 
to destroy the moths which may have entered the cavity; finally, 
they are hermetically secured beneath watch crystals. There 
is also a handsome collection of Indian antiquities, weapons and 
