Archdeacon Paley must have been, when I was aroused by a
look of horror and dismay upon the face of the magistrate, a look which conveyed
to me the impression that he regarded my watch not as having been designed, but
rather as the designer of himself and of the universe; or as at any rate one of
the great first causes of all things.
    Then it struck me that this view was quite as likely to be taken as the
other by a people who had no experience of European civilization, and I was a
little piqued with Paley for having led me so much astray; but I soon discovered
that I had misinterpreted the expression on the magistrate's face, and that it
was one not of fear, but hatred. He spoke to me solemnly and sternly for two or
three minutes. Then, reflecting that this was of no use, he caused me to be
conducted through several passages into a large room, which I afterwards found
was the museum of the town, and wherein I beheld a sight which astonished me
more than anything that I had yet seen.
    It was filled with cases containing all manner of curiosities - such as
skeletons, stuffed birds and animals, carvings in stone (whereof I saw several
that were like those on the saddle, only smaller), but the greater part of the
room was occupied by broken machinery of all descriptions. The larger specimens
had a case to themselves, and tickets with writing on them in a character which
I could not understand. There were fragments of steam engines, all broken and
rusted; among them I saw a cylinder and piston, a broken fly-wheel, and part of
a crank, which was laid on the ground by their side. Again, there was a very old
carriage whose wheels in spite of rust and decay, I could see, had been designed
originally for iron rails. Indeed, there were fragments of a great many of our
own most advanced inventions; but they seemed all to be several hundred years
old, and to be placed where they were, not for instruction, but curiosity. As I
said before, all were marred and broken.
    We passed many cases, and at last came to one in which there were several
clocks and two or three old watches. Here the magistrate stopped, and opening
the case began comparing my watch with the others. The design was different, but
the thing was clearly the same. On this he turned to me and made me a speech in
a severe and injured tone of voice, pointing repeatedly to the watches in the
case, and to my