Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826 [1797], The Algerine captive, or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six years a prisoner among the Algerines, volume 1 (, Walpole, NH) [word count] [eaf407v1].
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CHAP. XVII.
A hornet's &longs;ting,
And all the wonders of an infect's wing.
Mrs. Barbauld.
ARGUMENT.
The Author In&longs;pects the Mu&longs;eum at Harvard
College: Account of the Wonderful
Curio&longs;ities, Natural and Artificial, he
&longs;aw there.
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On my return, I pa&longs;&longs;ed through
Cambridge; and, by the peculiar politeness
and urbanity of the then librarian,
I in&longs;pected the college mu&longs;eum. Here,
to my &longs;urpri&longs;e, I found the curio&longs;ities of
all countries, but our own. When I
inquired for the natural curio&longs;ities of
New England, with &longs;pecimens of the
rude arts, arms, and antiquities of the
original po&longs;&longs;e&longs;&longs;ors of our &longs;oil, I was &longs;hewn,
for the former, an overgrown gourd &longs;hell,
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which held, I do not recollect how many
gallons; &longs;ome of the &longs;havings of the cannon,
ca&longs;t under the in&longs;pection of Colonel
M—; a &longs;tuffed wild duck, and the curious
fungus of a turnip: and, for the
latter, a miniature birch canoe, containing
two or three rag aboriginals with
paddles, cut from a &longs;hingle. This la&longs;t
article, I confe&longs;s, would not di&longs;grace the
baby hou&longs;e of a child, if he was not above
&longs;even years of age. To be more
&longs;erious, I felt then for the reputation of
the fir&longs;t &longs;eminary of our land. Suppo&longs;e
a Raynal or Buffon &longs;hould vi&longs;it us; repair
to the mu&longs;eum of the univer&longs;ity,
eagerly inquiring after the natural productions
and original antiquities of our country,
what mu&longs;t be the &longs;en&longs;ations of the
re&longs;pectable rulers of the college, to be
obliged to produce, to them, the&longs;e wretched,
bauble &longs;pecimens.
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Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826 [1797], The Algerine captive, or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six years a prisoner among the Algerines, volume 1 (, Walpole, NH) [word count] [eaf407v1].
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