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baje ; laceria tigrina, azurea, hifpea, teguixin , Barbara , Jlellio ; tejludo ferpentbia Amboi -nenfis ; rana ladlea, marginata, cornuta , gibbofa ; tetraodon line at us, ocellatus ; et pegafusvolitans. Of fifties: gobius aphya , niger ; chcetodon ciliaris, capijlratus , arcuatus; fc'uzncsbimaculata ; zeus vomer, fpinofus ; uranofcopus pi dins ; calichytys tamoata ; - labnis julii ,paroticus, niloticus, aut Nilis lufcus ; pleuronecles ocellatus , limanda ; gymnotus pinguis ;perca labrax, nilatica, cojloides, vittata, fcriba ; trigla cucullus ; cobitis anableps ; fdurusmjlus, angui/laris, undecimalis , clarias ; falmo niloticus ; efox fphyrcena ; atherina Jlepfe‘ius; clypea myjlus, cyprinus, niloticus, dentex ; et mormyrus cyprindides, anguilloides . Ofinfects, many fcarabei from America ; fcarabeus facer, gigas, fcaber, longipes, Syriacus,ceratonice, carmatus; chryfolomela facra ; curculio Indus, pufio , vaginalis, difpar, argyreus ,fpeciofus, cornutus, Capenfis, et attelabus, fipylus ; many Cerambyces alfo from Ame-rica ; the elater Syriacus, meloe Syriacus, blatta Mgyptiaca, gryllus gongylodes, JEgyp-tiiis ; and a number of others, among them, cimex Arabs , ferratus, bipunciatus JEgyp -tiacus. Of butterflies, a very fine collection, which gave rife to a highly efteemed workfrom the pen of Mr. Clerk. A number of cray fifh, of very Angular and various fpecies.Of fhells: Lepas mitella , myaperna, vulfella,folen cultellus, radiatus, aratinus ; a folaris,two inches and a half in diameter; tellina gargadiagari; cardium cojlatum , cardijfa ;donax fcerium } venus zigzag ; fpondylus regius ; chama cordiformis; area glycimeris ; ojiredpallium, felis,pes, opercularis, ifognomon malleus ; mytilus frons; pinna digiti, formis, jac-cata, lobata; a conus princeps, of two inches, extremely rare *, a number ot harps, oneof which three inches and a half long ; ammiralis fummus fpedlrum ; bulla ampulla, phyfiscanalicula folidalis ; valuta porphyria, pertufa, Mthiopica ; Jlrombus latijfimus, epidromis,iirceus, ater ; trochus ielefcopius ; a turbo perfonaius.fcalaris, of nearly two inches ; helixhyanthena, amarula, haliotoidea ; nerita canvena, albamen, corona; haliotis marmorata,parva, patella, porcelana, anguis ; ferpula lumbricalis anguina ; a mitella, very rare, andan argonaut of eight inches. The collection of corals, millepores, madrepores, and fubi -pores, from the Baltic, Red, and Indian feas, is very perfeCt. The collection of mineralsvery felcCt. A large mummy in good prefervation, of unufual fize. Among the col-lection of plants is that made by Mr. Hajfelquijl, in the Levant , and particularly in Pa-lefiine, and that made by Mr. Kalm in North America . The cabinet contains a fmalllibrary of analogous books.

The Queen’s apartments are not very numerous, they confift of three rooms and an.audience chamber, all of them furnilhed after the antique. The audience chamber isfull of paintings by Ehrenjlralt ; fix of them are large, and reprefent an allegorical feriesof the hiltory of Sweden, in which the reign of Charles XI. is moft particularly diftin-guifhable ; the ceiling is beautiful. In a hall adjoining are feven portraits and two hif-torical paintings. In the gallery, ten large pictures and two above the door, feverallyreprefenting battles of Charles Guftavus. In the jirjl above the door, Charles X . withfeveral gentlemen in his fuite, furrounded by Polilh coflacks, cutting their way throughthem ; neither time nor place are defignated. In the fecond, nothing is to be feen butheaps of dead, and troops engaging. Near the oppofite door, the battle of Colembo,which took place on the 8th February, 1656, and in which Charles X . gained a com-plete victory over the Poles. Next the door, in a large painting the battle of Gnefnais reprefented, fought on the a-Jlh April, 1756, and in which Duke Adolphus John, asGeneralliflimo, defeated the Polilh army, and obtained confiderable booty. Of fourlarge pictures which fucceed, the firfl reprefents the battle of Philippovo, on the 12thOtiober, 1656, in which General Guftavus Otto Stenboek defeated the Lithuanian armyand ten thoufand Tartars ; the three others the battle of Warfaw, in 1656, on the j 8th,19th, and 20th July, in which Charles X. entity routed th$ Polilh army. Four pic-tures