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Among the best American exhibits are, beginning with the Eastern states, those of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Idaho and California; and in Canada those of the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. Among the other foreign exhibits that of New South Wales is preëminent in the quality, nature and mode of arrangement of the exhibit. The exhibits of Great Britain, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, South Africa, Ceylon, Japan, and other foreign countries, are good as far as they go.
Many of the mining exhibits of both states and foreign countries are divided, and put partly in the Mines and Mining Building and partly in the individual buildings of the states or countries in question. Such a course is a great mistake, as it renders the exhibit in both buildings imperfect, and those who see the exhibit in one building without knowing that it is supplemented in another, receive an incomplete, and therefore an erroneous, idea of the products of the country represented. Each mining exhibit should be kept together, whether it be in the Mines and Mining Building or in another building.
The exhibits of the New England states are naturally representative of less economic value than those of some of the other states, because, with the exception of building and ornamental stones, most of their mining products are of subordinate importance; but at the same time they display what they have in a systematic and consistent manner. The Massachusetts exhibit is thoroughly characteristic and well arranged, showing not only the economic products, but also many rocks and minerals of purely scientific interest. The Maine exhibit is also characteristic of the state, while the New Hampshire and Vermont exhibits are small but appropriate, consisting largely of building stones, with mica and other minerals from New Hampshire. The granite of New Hampshire and the granite and white marble of Vermont are displayed on a small but sufficient scale.
Coming westward, the New York exhibit is the first one we