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kirby’s wonderful museum.
sons, whom she had never seen before, distance of the plain
glass from the face, three or four inches.
23d.—Perceived her own face in a plain glass, distance
three or four inches ; at a greater distance her face appeared
very small, her face also reflected from a plain mirror, hold-
ing the plain glass at three or four inches from the mirror,
when the mirror was withdrawn, said her face diminished.
All objects constantly appear as a picture on the glass she
touches.
24th.—Perceived the sun through a plain glass; also the
reflected image of the sun from a plain mirror; was not
dazzled with it; found it very pleasant.
25th.—Several small articles were held over her head; she
perceived them all in her plain glass. She asked doubtingly,
if a three-shilling-piece was not a guinea; but raising her
glass, and bringing it nearer to the object, she corrected her
error.
26th.—With her fingers on the window, described a
workman in the street, distance ten yards ; a cart loaded
with barrels of American flour; another, w ith two loaves of
sugar; a third empty ; a girl, with a small child in her arms,
&c. all accurately true, except there were three loaves of
sugar in the second cart.
27th.—Could not distinguish by the touch the difference
between pure water, and a solution of common salt in water.
28th.—Accurately described by the touch several small
engravings.
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SUPERB ORIENTAL TOY.
It represents the tomb of Confucius, and is one of the
most elaborate, costly, and beautiful specimens of oriental
ingenuity, ever imported into Europe. It long constituted
one of the most attractive objects in the late Museum of
Sir Ashton Lever.
kirby’s wonderful museum.
sons, whom she had never seen before, distance of the plain
glass from the face, three or four inches.
23d.—Perceived her own face in a plain glass, distance
three or four inches ; at a greater distance her face appeared
very small, her face also reflected from a plain mirror, hold-
ing the plain glass at three or four inches from the mirror,
when the mirror was withdrawn, said her face diminished.
All objects constantly appear as a picture on the glass she
touches.
24th.—Perceived the sun through a plain glass; also the
reflected image of the sun from a plain mirror; was not
dazzled with it; found it very pleasant.
25th.—Several small articles were held over her head; she
perceived them all in her plain glass. She asked doubtingly,
if a three-shilling-piece was not a guinea; but raising her
glass, and bringing it nearer to the object, she corrected her
error.
26th.—With her fingers on the window, described a
workman in the street, distance ten yards ; a cart loaded
with barrels of American flour; another, w ith two loaves of
sugar; a third empty ; a girl, with a small child in her arms,
&c. all accurately true, except there were three loaves of
sugar in the second cart.
27th.—Could not distinguish by the touch the difference
between pure water, and a solution of common salt in water.
28th.—Accurately described by the touch several small
engravings.
•♦//////////////// z ///<■■
SUPERB ORIENTAL TOY.
It represents the tomb of Confucius, and is one of the
most elaborate, costly, and beautiful specimens of oriental
ingenuity, ever imported into Europe. It long constituted
one of the most attractive objects in the late Museum of
Sir Ashton Lever.