Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

of the trunk of the root, on either side, two little figures rise up, in that figure which I had delineated in copper Meaning an engraving.; on the right, indeed, appearing as if of the female sex with breasts, and on the left side as if of the masculine, where some small and thin roots show the appearance of a beard; such thin roots in the upper part show the figure of some scattered hairs on the head, no less than other similar ones show the hair of the eyelashes, and others in the lower parts. The lower part of the trunk, once united to the body of the roots, was likewise cut off in those depredations; it now presents a mutilated Root. Yet the whole Root is rotten here and there and eaten by worms, yet soft, so that it can certainly be seen not to be wood, but a root, and it was permitted for me to examine it thoroughly several times with Dr. Henricus Vollgnadius, a curious colleague. All things present the figure crudely, yet so that the limbs could be distinguished in the manner in which they were delineated.

In the church itself, toward the north, a painting of great age is seen on a large board, showing the founder of the said church, Duke Henricus Probus, who holds a sword in his right hand and a shield with the Silesian Eagle in his left.

Before the first entrance of the church hangs a part of a bone, which is sold as being from a giant. Georgius Antonius Volckmann delineated this same bone in his Silesia Subterranea, Table XXV, number 2, and in Part 1, Chapter V, page 146, described it thus:

I consider this bone to be a femur, which is shown in the Cathedral at Breslau in the Holy Cross Church; the length is two feet, less half an inch, the upper and thick width is half a foot, the middle is five and a half inches, and the lowest is four and a half inches, although it was longer, as can be seen at both ends where it has been broken off or rotted away.

III. The Church of the Virgin, which on the Sand Island the Canons of the Order of St. Augustine inhabit, has been adorned almost entirely a few years ago with completely new altars in the same manner and a pneumatic organ A pipe organ., in which there are most excellent altar paintings, which are seen next to the primary altar; such as St. Apollonia, shown as her teeth are being broken out with pincers, and above this, St. Peter, and opposite...