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pretty and curious, and containing much to interest and amuse, we 
have not time to dwell long upon its beauties and wonders. I will 
mention only the museum, in which there is collected a remarkably 
fine series of fossils, of the Tortoise and Turtle kind, obtained from 
various parts of the Jura oolite. These consist, not only of shells, 
but-also of bones and teeth, and are in great abundance, and extra- 
ordinarily perfect. Besides these, there are many first bones from 
the same formation, and a few teeth labelled Anoplotherium and 
Paleotherium, but which, in all probability, must be referred to some 
saurian, and not to animals which, as far as we know, belong exclu- 
sively to tertiary beds. 
When we had seen all the wonders of the town—and I should 
not omit to say that the prefect and other authorities waited upon 
and showed us every thing—we partook of a magnificent cold col- 
lation, to which nearly a hundred people sat down, and then pro- 
ceeded on our way, and towards ten o'clock arrived in the neigh- 
bourhood of Bienne, which was our next point of attraction. At 
about a mile from the town we found a deputation waiting our ar- 
rival, and having descended from our carriages, we listened, with 
our heads uncovered and our faces composed into the most decent 
gravity, while a short, puffy, important little man, with a propor- 
tionate voice, was haranguing us on the honour done to Bienne by 
our visit, and the delight which its inhabitants felt, in common with 
all the Swiss, at the opportunity of showing their feelings of vene- 
ration for the French savans, especially those who studied that 
science—of all others the most interesting—to which the society 
present had devoted itself. Having hada happy delivery of his 
speech, and thereby lightened his mind greatly, the little man lis- 
tened with vast gravity, while our pro-vice-president made a fine 
flaming oration in the same style; and then, after much bowing, we 
put on our hats, got into our carriages, and made the best of our 
way onward: but our honours were not yet full blown. Before 
we had got much more than half a mile, or were at-all within sight 
of the town, we heard salutes firing: our modesty at first refused to 
believe that it was intended so to exalt us; but as we approached 
the firing continued, and we soon saw that we were to enter 
in triumph, The whole military and civil force was, in fact, drawn 
out to meet us, and we were ushered into the town amid such a 
beating of drums, playing of music, waving of flags, and shouting of 
voices, that strangers would have thought that at least half a dozen 
kings were making their entry, not crediting that the view of our 
geological faces and hammers could be the sole attraction. How- 
