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large Snipe, weighs eight ounces, a Non-descript, a Godwith not described, the Knot, the Whimball, a kind of Puffer not described, the Poal-snipe, the Hoopie, the swallow-tail Shell-Drake. 
Amongst the birds are the following singular conceptions, and out of the way colours; a Chick with two heads to one body; one with two bodies and only one head; one with two bodies and only one head; a Duck with one head and two bodies; a Duck with a food growing out of its head; a white Starling; a pyed Blackbird; a yellow Robin; a white Sparrow; a pyed Hedge-sparrow; and dun Wagtail. 
Of the exotics; out of upwards of 100 well-preserved specimens I selected the following, viz. the Southern Penguin, the Flamingo, a large brown Owl from North America, the scarlet Maccau, the green and scarlet lawry, a bird of Paradise, a curious specimen; the white Heron of Catsby, the little Bitton, the Booby, the little Indian Pye of Edwards, the red-throated Grofs-beak, the greater Blackbird, the redpwinged Starling, the Cardinal-bird, the Bannana-bird, the fummer Red-bird, with many more equally curious.
Upwards of 100 specimens of English fishes, vix. the Dragonot, the Wolf Fish, the Lump Fish, the Skuttle fish, the Ink Fish, the Gilt Charr, the Scarlet Gurnard, the Sturgeon, the Lamprey, the Eelpout.
From there I will proceed to the exotics, of which I numbered upwards of 100 species, and noted the following vix. the hammer-headed Shark, the Saw fish, the Balance fish, the Flying Gurnard, the long file Fish, the Dolphine, the Lump Fish, the Jackulator Fish, the Unicorn  Fish, the Trumpet Fish, the Remora or Suckking Fish,, the Trumpet Fish, the Remora or Sucking Fish, the Hare Globe Fish, the Porcupine Fish, the Porcupine Globe Fish, the Porcupine Bladder Fish, the Holly Fish, the Sting ray, the Tringularhonored Fish, the Urchin, or Hedgehod Fish, the Bladder Fish, and the Weasel Fish.
Upwards of 200 specimens of shells, amongst which are many rare and valuable. 
Of Serpents, Lizards, Frogs, Toads, 7c. Preserved in spirits, upwards of one hundred distinct specimens. 
Of Lobsters, crabs, and large Beetles, upwards of 100 species. Upwards of 200 kinds of birds eggs, with a great number of curious nests. 

There are no less than 1100 specimens of Fossils, many hundreds of which are capital ones. Of spars, Chaistals, and Stalactites, &c. &c. many fine specimens; one specimen of Spar I measured, and found its height to be 35 inches, and its weight, as noted upon it, is 155lb. of a very beautiful form, and seems entirely pellucid ('tis really a fine specimen)/ Upwards of 200 specimens of foreign marble, and a perfects affortment of the Derbyshire marbles. Here are also deposited many wonderful pieces of art, the following of which I put down; upwards of 1000 kinds of medals, besides a vast number of casts, many thousands in sulphur, plainster, and wax; and upwards of 200 capital drawings, highly finished after natural subjects in this Museum, and done by gentlemen eminent in the art. 
A few pictures of birds in straw, very natural, bu Miss Gregg; a basket of flowers, cut paper, --a most masterly performance; the flowers are justly represented, not the least dot of apices of the stamina wasting, or least faluth in the proportion; every part is so truly observed, that it was new to me every time I went to fee it, and gave me great delight. This curious basket of flowers was executed by Mrs. Groves. 
There are a great number of antique dresses and parts of dresses of our own and other nations. 
Near 200 species of warlike instruments, ancient and modern; buy as I am not friend to fighting, of there I took no further notice,  or else I might have mentioned the Tomahawk, the Scalping -knife, and many more suck desperate diabolical instruments of description, invented, no doubt, but he Devil himself. 
Here is a head of his present Majesty, cut in Cannil, Coal, Said to be a striking likeness; indeed the workmanship is inimitable. 
Here is also a drawing in Indian ink of head of late Duke of Bridgewater, valued at 100 guineas.
I had like to have omitted mentioning a great number of find specimens of different kind of Coals and corallines, Astroites, Madrepores, propitiate, and in particular one pieces of Fossil Coral, very fine; its weight is 258 lb. and circumference two yards 12 inches (I think there kinds are called Brainstone). There are also a great number  of plants  and infects of which

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