The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County; Embellished with Engravings Volume 2; - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... The Catalogue contains, first, a list of sundry articles from the Sandwich Islands, as dresses, domestic, warlike, and other implements, iilols, ornaments, fishing tackle, &c. Many of them presented by Sir Joseph Banks. 2dly. Curiosities from North and South America, of a similar use and character to those of the Sandwich Islands. 3dly. African Curiosities, consisting also of similar articles. 4thly. Works of Art: paintings, sculpture, models, &e. both of foreign and British production. The collections in Natural History are extremely extensive, interesting, and well elected. The Ornithological department, in particular, is very copious, containing an immense number of species, arranged according to the Liimaean classification, and in a capital state of preservation. Gthly. Amphibious Animals in great variety. 6thly. Serpents: about two hundred different kinds are exhibited here in their natural positions, with the English and Linnuian names attached to them. 7thly. Fishes in almost endless variety. Sthly. Insects: about five hundred of the most remarkable for their beauty of colours, extraordinary form, or singularity of manner or economy. 9tlily. Shells, a portion of which, we are told, once belonged to the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus, whose autograph is enclosed in the small bell-glass which contains them. lOtlily. Zoophytes; consisting of a rich and numerous asemblage of the inhabitants of the marine world, disposed in such a manner as they may be supposed to exist in the bottom of their native element. llliilv. Minerals, of various kinds; among which is a fine cpecimeH of crystallized iron ore, with an iridescent surface, from the Island of Elba on the coast of Tuscany. Here also is a model of the Pigot Diamond. l'-'thly....