Note 255 — Chapter IX
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They are manifestly made upon a European model. Mr. Duncan, who writes with the simplicity of a child, tells us (vol. ii. p. 271), that the King caused him to enter a memorandum of several patterns for canopies, desiring him to order a number of them to be sent from England. At the present moment (August, 1864), one of these umbrellas may be seen at the rooms of the Royal Geographical Society, London.