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minerals, gold, diamonds and other precious stones, with field 
and garden seeds, nuts and manufactured articles; classic 
Greece, with her olives, figs, raisins, cereals and manufactures; 
old Egj^pt with her brilliant and grotesque exhibition of em¬ 
broidered garments, richly mounted saddlery and antiquated 
arms ; the Ottoman Empire, showing cereals and other agricul¬ 
tural products, leather and leathern manufactures, carpets, em¬ 
broideries and filigree work ; Russia, making a noble exhibi¬ 
tion of minerals—including magnificent malachite, gold and 
silver ores, and precious stones from the Ural mountains—cer¬ 
eals, seeds, flax, hemp, cotton, silk and wool, and their manu¬ 
factures, skins and furs, leathers and leathern manufactures, 
gold and silver plate ; Sweden and Norway, displaying Bessa- 
mer steel, iron, copper and other metals, philosophical instru¬ 
ments, silver ware, silks, national costumes, figures and por¬ 
traits ; Denmark, with earthenware, porcelain manufactures, 
furniture, work in silver and gold, and musical instruments; 
glorious, free Switzerland, making a beautiful show of watches 
and watch-making machinery, musical instruments, cutlery, 
optical and philosophical instruments, silk and velvet goods 
and engravings ; Holland, with her agricultural products, linen 
and woolen fabrics, hardware, furniture, silver ware, fine dia¬ 
monds, and beautiful works of art, in the gallery; Belgium, 
presenting minerals and agricultural products, hardware and 
fire-arms, textile fabrics, silks and velvets, cotton, linen and 
mixed goods, and in the galleries such a show of laces 
as she alone could offer ; and last of all, in the transept, the 
Austrian empire, with her long oppressed dependency, the 
kingdom of Hungary, together showing, on the lower floor, a 
fine collection of cereal grains, wools, vegetable fibres, wines, 
wax, soaps, mineral products, including coal, sulphur and rock 
salt, Bohemian glass, meerschaum pipes, maps, charts, books, 
musical instruments, photographs, &c., and, in the galleries 
above, woolen, cotton and silk and linen fabrics, shawls and a 
great variety of articles of use and luxury. 
From this point, a single step led into the great western an 
nexe, where had been reserved the grandest spectacle of all 
