(Translated for the 8. M. Herald from the "Exposition UnivergeUe," page4S&.—No. 30, August 14J Behind the tortoises and the glass bottles which may be seen in the midst of our eograving are to be found other rows of bottles tiled with carth — here yellow, there red, and elsewhere of gr<-y tint ; whilst har»l by are others containing flinty pebbles of a large s<ze with sharply-defined edges. All that is very cmmon (vulgaire), very bare, and of very little interest. Nevertheless we must request the visitor to pause for a moment. This is the Land of Gold ! What you pee there is auriferous* quartz ! All that is here exudes gold, all has a relation to that vile metal which is so prtcious ! Turn b.ick and look ! There are 350,000 fraucs in gold- there before your eyes ! And all that is reflected as in a mirror og the front of that case made like a gla-s house —in front of which one half of the visitors do not even stop for a moment. — And so gold in the state in which it is found is not beautiful ? You must know what it is before you can recognise it ; you must be enabled to make it out before it can offer you any attractions, for the appearance of it is not alluring to the eye. All that c*n be seen under that little glass house are about twenty bowls of out glass, in which are placed a small quantity of dull, ereeaish matter, resembling the tr«ces of a yellow bronze, and not, in any way, realising the idea of ?old dust— a designation which men of the Ea>t have applied thereto. Very Ut from resembling that which we call gold dust (poudre dor) for putting on writing — a dust which is merely yellow mica— the other the true gold dust, preserves the evident marks of natural fusion ; it is not gold dust, it is gold in grains. Above the br»wls, a bar of gold c«st thick and rough, l>y the side of a small plate of the same metal, shows the triumph of human toil over this precious substance. 