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unity and coming independence. Heroism
appeals to the heart universal, and since thine,
0 Garibaldi, was heroism for that Liberty
which is the hope and aim of all humanity,
we reverently uncover our heads in thy pres-
ence:
  In the gallery above are hundreds of sam-
ples of agricultural products, wines, woods,
wools, raisins, figs and other fruits. And in
department of machinery in motion we shall
be interested in the electric loom and in a
collection of quaint, clumsy agricultural im-
plements, such as are used even to this day
in the land of Virgil and Columella.
  And here, also, is
         ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY,
Represented, as is fit, by her inlaid mosaics,
her bronzes, her skilfully wrought jewelry and
cameos, lavas and precious stones, her mar-
bles, carved and plain, by a few textile fab-
rics, but chiefly and magnificently by her
works of art.
  Her best two statues, "Cleopatra" and
"The Libyan Sybil," are from 'he hand of our
own gifted countryman W. W. Story, whose
fame nobly supports that of Powers. Of both
of these we have spoken already, under the
head of "The American Court."
  Rome is still, of all the cities of the world,
first in the department of Art, but it is now,
and has been for years, only by virtue of the
transcendent genius of artists dead or artists
foreign. Her ruins are not alone of palaces
and temples, and the throne of universal do-
minion. When the nightmare of superstition
is once and for all shaken off, will she not
rise again into a new and beautiful life of
intellectual, religious and political liberty?
                 PORTUGAL
Displays, in small space, but very neatly, fine
samples of wool, raw silk, seeds, nuts, oils,
fruits, green and preserved, cork, wines, silk
and cotton fabrics, straw work, wax flowers
and other articles of like character.  She
likewise presents fine specimens from some of
her but recently worked mines of iron, co'-
per and antimony, together with a good col-
lection of huildinr stones and marbles.



            TUB SPANISH COURT
Comes next, and attracts the visitor by fine
collections of cereal grains and tobacco, fruits
peculiar to the climate of Spain, such as rai-
sins, figs, olives, acorn coffee, &c., &c.; woods,
cork, wools, cottons, silks, and their fabrics;
straw hats and mattings; specimens of cop-
per and other minerals and their products.
There are likewise good displays of silk em-
broideries, showing the fine taste and skill of
the Castilian women.
  The pianos are well made and remarkably
fine-toned; the carved furniture, much of it
is beautiful.
  Spanish porcelain. But recently no crook-
cry ware of any merit haci ever been made in
Spain, England having furnished them from
time immemorial.
  Here, too, are fire-arms, cannon and mili-
tary equipments of Spanish manufacture.
And better still, et credence that Spain is not
utterly dead, we shall find in the department
of Civil Engineering, models and drawings of
the Tudela and Bilboa Railroad-one of the
most remarkable triumphs of the Engineering
Art yet achieved. This road crosses the Can-
tabrian chain of mountains in the north of
Spain, meandering its way up and down the
sides of the mountains in a manner which
leaves the Pennsylvania Central quite in the
shade, and piercing the summit at the level of
2,163 feet above the level of the sea.
  Who knows but that the spirit of improve-
ment may yet be so enkindled in this ancient
and once powerful kingdom as to give to it
again a place among the acknowledged pow-
ers of the old world?
                  FRANCS.
  Now we enter the most brilliant and tasts-
fully arranged of all the National courts. It
occupies the whole of the great rectangular
space in the southwestern part of the palace,
and the magnificent galleries which surround
it on every side.
  In the centre is a splendid ornament-part
of the service of plate belonging to the Hotel
de Ville, of Paris-allegorically represents-
tive of Paris. drawn in a rolden ship by the



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