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Rh of them according to the Linnean system. The gardener shewed us a palm-tree which was in existence when the Spaniards were masters of the United Provinces; and this afforded him an opportunity, which no citizen of Leyden ever loses, of descanting on the courage, constancy, and sufferings, of the old inhabitants of the town.

In the garden is an apartment for the reception of statues, altars, and other antiques, which were presented to the university by a burgomaster of the town. Many of the statues are considerably mutilated. Of those which are in a tolerable state of preservation, a bacchus and a bacchinal, Servilius, a full figure of a Roman consul, and the busts of Nero and Agrippina, were the best.

From this apartment, the stranger is conducted into another, which contains a small collection of natural history. The birds and beasts of this collection, and particularly the latter, which have not the advantage of being kept in glass frames, are so wretchedly preserved, that it is impossible for a person unaccustomed