Excerpt from A Year in Europe, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising a Journal of Observations, in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the North of Italy, and Holland, in 1818 and 1819 The museum of paintings and antiquities has a good deal to interest a stranger. Some of the paintings are fine, but the light in which they are seen, is very defective. The Roman antiquities, found near Marseilles, consisting of statues, urns, medals, ao. Are numerous, and well preserved in this museum. There is here also a pretty large col lection of shells. Among the rarities of the cabi t is a hydrocephalus skull, nearly a foot in diameter. He li brery contains volumes, and is supplied with modern publications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.