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large Snipe, weighs eight ounces, a Non-descript, a Goodwit not described, a 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 conception, and out of the way colous; a Chick with two heads to one body; one with two bodies and only one head; a Duck with one head and two bodies; a Duck with a foot growing out of its head; a white Starling; a pyed Blackbird; a yellow Robin; a white Sparrow; a pyed Hedge-sparrow; and a dun Wagtail.
Of the exotics; out of upward of 100 well-preserved specimens I selected with following, viz. the Southern Penguin, the Flaming, 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 Catesby, the little Bittron, the Booby, the little Indian Pye of Edwards, the red-throated Gross-beak, the greater Blackbird, the red-winged Straling, the Cardinal bird, the Bannana-bird, the summer Red-bird, with many more equally curious.
Upwards of 100 specimens of English fishes, viz. the Dragonot, thee Wolf Fifth, the Lump Fish, the Skuttle Fish, the Ink Fish, the GIlt Charr, the Scarlet Gurnard, the Stourgeon, the Lamprey, the Eelpout.
From these I will proceed to the exotics, of which I numbered upwards of 100 species, and noted the following, viz.the hammer-headed Shark, the Saw fish, the Balance Fish, the Flying Gurnard, the long File Fish, the Dolphin, the lump Fish, the Jackulator Fish, the Unicorn Fish, the Trumpet Fish, the Remora of Sucking Fish, the Hare Globe Fish, the Porcupine Fish, the Porcupine Globe Fish, the Porcupine Bladder Fish, the HOlly Fish, the Sting Ray, the Triangularhorned Fish, the Urchin, or Hedgehog Fish, the Bladder Fish, and the Weasel Fish.
Upwards of 200 specimens of shells, amongst which are many rare and valuable.
Of Sperpents, Lizards, Frogs, Toads, &c. preserved in spirits, upwards of One hundred distinct fishmens.
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 hundred of which are capital ones. Of Spars, Christals, and Stalaeties, &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 perfect assortment of the Berbyshire marbles. Here are also deposited many wonderful pieces of art, the following of which I put down; upwards of 1000 kinds of medals befides a vast number of cafts, many thousands in sulphur, plaifter, and wax; and upwards of 200 capitals 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, by Miss Gregg; a basket of flowers, cut in paper, --a most masterly performance; the flowers are justly represented, not the leaft dot of the apices of the stamina waiting, or the leaft fault in teh proportion; every part in so turly observed, that it was new to me every time I went to fee it, and gave. This curious basket of flowers was executed by Mrs. Groves.
There are a great number of antique dresses and parts pf the dresses of out own and other nations.
Near 200 species of warlike instruments, ancient and modern; but as I am no friend to fighting, of these I took no furtheer notice, or else I might have mentioned the Tomahawk, the Scalping-knife, and many more such desperate diabolical instruments of defrusction, invented, no doubt, by the Devil himself.
Here is a head of his present Majesty, cut in Cannil Coal, said to be a striking likenes; indeed the workmanship in inimitabel.
Here is also a drawing in Indian ink of a head of a late Duke of Bridgewater, vallue at 100 guineas.
I had like to have omitted nentioning a great number of find specimens of different kinds of Corals and coralines, Astroites, Madrepores, Porpitae, and in partifular one pieces of Fossil Coral, very fine; its weight is 258 lb. and circumsences two yards 12 inches (I think there kinds are called (Braintones). There are also a great number of plants and insects, of which Transcription Notes:
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