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LONDON INTERNATIONAL 
There, in the southeast corner tower, was America, with her 
little collection of staple products and curious inventions ; her 
few musical instruments and works of art intruding upon the 
extreme southern end of the eastern transept. But all else 
occupying that vast area of more than 18,000 square rods 
which lay on the east side of the transverse central avenue, to¬ 
gether with the galleries above it and a large proportion of the 
eastern and more than half of the western “ annexe ” were the 
products of the 
UNITED KINGDOM OF GEEAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIAL POS¬ 
SESSIONS. 
Immediately on my left, beneath the dome, was Victo¬ 
ria’s trophy—a gilded pyramid six feet by six at the base and 
forty feet high, representing the bulk of solid gold derived 
from that far-off colony since the Exhibition of 1851. Before 
me, along the centre of the nave and in the courts prominent¬ 
ly fronting thereon, were statues in marble and bronze, obelisks, 
light-houses, collections of beautiful porcelain, trophies of 
guns, leather, woolen kibrics and foods ; together with magnifi¬ 
cent cases of gold and silver plate and precious stones. On 
my left, along the transept, were metallic screens of sur¬ 
passing beauty, splendid displays of London and mediieval 
hardware, chimes of steel bells filling the great palace with 
their stirring calls to worldly activity or religious duty as the 
ear of the listener might interpret, with Grothic brass-work, 
gas-fittings, church lamps, grates of superior style, terra-cotta 
work, enamelled slates and marble mantels and other objects ex 
hibited for architectural beauty at the side; while high over all, 
and at the very extremity, next the American court, stood the 
great cathedral organ, whose solemn notes pealed out in sub¬ 
lime music through all the grand aisles of the temple. 
On the right, stretching away to the other extremity of this 
same transept, and under the gallery next the eastern wall of 
the palace, there were, first, another great organ, then the fine 
timber trophies of Van Dieman s Land, New Brunswick and 
Canada, 90 feet high; a shaft of coal from Nova Scotia, 30 
