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then a very large and fine display of manufactures of glass, 
porcelain, earthen, terra-cotta and wedgewood wares, both 
modern and antique, and, last of all, the most brilliant array 
of gold and silver plate and precious metals and jewels the 
world ever saw. 
On the opposite side of the nave, were found pianos and oth¬ 
er musical instruments; furniture of every description, modern, 
mediaeval and antique; and, finally, another most interesting 
and picturesque group of British Colonies, to-wit: The Baha¬ 
mas, with seeds, woods, fibres, cotton, sponges and shells ; the 
Ionian islands, with their fine collection of natural products 
and manufactured articles; Trinidad, with its asphaltum, lig¬ 
nite, coal, minerals, native woods, skins, fibres, oils and chemi¬ 
cal products ; New Zealand, with mineral ores, gold, sulphur, 
coal, woods, seeds, cereals, wool, coffee, textile fabrics, rude 
domestic implements and yet ruder weapons of war; Natal, 
with a fine collection of food substances, skins, horns, fibres, 
wool, woods, minerals and other specimens of natural history, 
and Kafir manufactures; Cape of Gfood Hope, made doubly 
hopeful by thus bringing out into the light of civilization an in¬ 
teresting collection of her remarkable fibres and other vegetable 
productions; Queensland and New South Wales with their 
fine display of wools, woods, cereals, gums, spices, oils, gold 
copper and other ores, clays, pottery and surgical instruments ; 
the Australias, (East and West) showing the finest wheat, wool, 
and gold, with copper ores, preserved fruits and various manu¬ 
factures ; and Victoria with the products of her manufacturing 
industry, and her splendid trophies of wool and of gold. 
In the British galleries, immediately above the colonial 
courts just described, was India, (including Bengal, Oude, the 
Punjab, Burmah, the Straits settlements and the northwestern 
provinces,) presenting her wonderful array of ivory, teas, oils, 
gums, resins, medicinal substances, clay, figures, straw manu¬ 
factures, cotton, wool, hemp, silk, and brilliant manufac¬ 
tures of these, in the form of carpets, shawls, embroideries, vel¬ 
vets, and, last, but not least, her paintings and her gods 1 The 
other open galleries in the British department were occupied 
