Two pavillions constructed, each 100 feet in diameter and large enough to hold 4000 spectators. Set up at the rears of the Court House and St. George's Church (Chronicle & Gazette 13 June, 1835, 1).
Travelling world of animate curiosities, consisting of Wild Beasts and Birds.
List of curiosities of exhibited:
During the exhibition Jack Downing will be introduced, mounted on a Shetland Poney who will perform a number of whimsical as well as amusing feats.
The Keeper will enter the cage in which the African Leopard and Leopards are confined at 3 o'clock pm.
To render the [event]... more attractive, the proprieters have enganged a Band of Musicians...who will execute favorite national airs, Marchers, overtures &c. The musicians will be seated in the splendid saddle, upon the back of the Elephant as the Grand Procession passes through the town.
In a seperate pavillion there is a collection of paintings of different cities in Europe and America, Battles of Waterloo, Slamanca, New Orleans, Falls of Niagra, Regent Street, London, New Londing Bridge, and others.
A total of eighty men, including the musicans, and horses were required for the exhibition to take place.
(Chronicle & Gazette 13 June, 1835, 1)