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But I had not yet seen how the infant palace was enlarged; 
fortune, however, favours the persevering as well as the brave, 
and this point also was cleared up. I had concluded that the 
additions must be made at the lower edge, but how they got them 
there was the puzzle. It was like enlarging a circular house by 
putting fresh stones under the foundation, and thus forcing up the 
walls and roof; but this is what is actually done. A certain 
house that struck my attention by its beauty was repeatedly 
noticed as being in the usual horizontal position, and giving no 
sum of life or alteration. But an hour or two after it was found 
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to be tilted up on one side, as in Fig. 4, and now struts (marked 
cl in the figure) built under the edge to keep it up, one of which 
the occupant was then strengthening at the base. The leaf now 
began to dry up, and no further work was done on the building ; 
but it is easy to see how the same process repeated on the other 
side (and the attachment to the leaf is but slight), and the 
plastering being continued down between the ribs, would be all 
that was required to preserve the symmetry, increase the size, and 
yet do it all from below. 
Fi<r. 5 is a sectional view of a fulhsized house, the line a l> 
showing the part that is first built, and described above, and seen 
in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. The loops seem to be seldom made on 
the lower series of additions, and to be often worn, broken, or 
eaten off by flies, ants, tkc., from above. 
Line and Pattern Mounting. 
By W. H. Wooster. 
[Read 29tli July, 1880.] 
The directions for “ Line and Pattern Mounting ” contained in 
the following pages were given to me by Mr. Henry Sharp, of 
New South Wales, whose slides, thus prepared, are exquisite 
examples of manipulative skill, and it is with his sanction that I 
now lay them before the Society. 
Requisites : (1) One or two cat’s or mouse’s whiskers fastened 
on match-like sticks or fine rushes, with shellac rather than gum, 
with about ] inch free. I prefer to have one with the natural 
point, and another with the point cut back to where it is somewhat 
stiffer. (2) A good simple microscope of some kind, either attached 
