The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chapter Lxxiii

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING THE ARTS-(Continued).

Telegraph-Spectacle of a Sea-fight at Rome-Wooden Eagle and Iron Fly-Whitehead's Ship-Scaliot's Lock, etc.--Praxiteles' Venus -Weaving Engine-Hydraulic Birds- Herschel's Grand Telescope-Boverick's Curiosities-Bunzlau Curiosities-Artificial Flying...

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