Oct 16th. Mond.

Mining Build. German Exhibit with Scenery at the back. Cases strewn with silver. Missouri, Map in Stone, Louisiana, Lot's Wife in Rock Salt. Silver pillar from New South Wales with a man bearing a globe on his back on the top. Typical scene in Iowa Coal fields, Miners at work, a car of coal. asbestos, a rock with a fibre in it which will not burn and from which they make fire proof clothing.

Transportation Build. Modes of boats. Map of World. Gondola from Venice upholstered in Black with furred edges. Cargo boats from Bengal India. Three post of Vessel "Waranna" 1538. Panorama of Austrian Alps. Model of Saloon Steerage, Cabin etc. of a great attractive steamer. The boat in which Grace Darling went to the rescue. Models of funeral boats. 4000 Yr old found in a tomb in Upper Egypt. Models of Venetian Gondolas of 15th, 17th & 19th centuries. Model of Egyptian temple 222 B.C. funeral boat, Rough wood whitewashed. Locomotvies 1803 & 1829. (the Rocket) Locomotives wooden on top 1837-1838. Lovely fancy sleigh White Sea egg resting on a bed of sea weed & the runners placed on

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