EXHIBITION OF 1862. 
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feet in bight; a trophy of natural objects from Vancouver’s 
Island; minerals, agricultural products, and simple manufac¬ 
tures from Prince Edward’s Island; agricultural and horticul¬ 
tural implements, cereal grains, skins and minerals from Cana¬ 
da ; seeds, spices, silver filigree work and beautiful laces from 
Malta; wools, spices, fibres and their rude manufactures from 
Ceylon’s distant isle; and tropical fruits, rum and other spirits 
from Jamaica, Barbadoes and Bermuda. 
The eastern annexe, which, it will be borne in mind, was 
continuous of this transept, likewise belonged to the British 
department and was filled to overflowing with products of 
British mines and quarries and with innumerable articles man¬ 
ufactured therefrom—chemicals including a marvellous collec¬ 
tion of new dyes and pigments; animal and vegetable sub¬ 
stances and their manufactures, including gutta-percha and In¬ 
dia rubber goods; wax, tallow, soaps, candles and perfumery; 
agricultural and horticultural implements of every sort; and 
a vast number of other machines, such as fire-engines, flouring 
and other mills, bread-making machinery and quartz crushers. 
On the west side of the nave, (looking westward) and be¬ 
tween it and the outer wall on Cromwell road, as far as to the 
central avenue, there were: first, on the outer side, a magnifi¬ 
cent display of carriages of every style and description in the 
United Kingdom ; then metallic manufactures of everv sort, 
including stoves and cooking ranges, bedsteads of iron and 
brass, chandeliers in ormolu, steel fenders, fire grates, carriage 
and railway springs, leathers of every sort, furs and furriers 
goods, machine processes, such as chromo-lithography, copper¬ 
plate printing, bristle and cork cutting, paper collar making, 
medal striking, medal and chain making, silk velvet weaving, 
envelope folding and mechanical type-setting ; then a fine ex¬ 
hibition illustrative of civil engineering, including models of 
bridges, docks, railways and viaducts ; most interesting models 
in military engineering and in naval architecture, to-wit: for¬ 
tifications, barracks, field and floating bridges, equippage, 
tents, ambulances, hospitals, cannon and small arms, shot and 
shell, life-boats, merchant ships and iron plated ships of war; 
