*4 TRAVELS THROUGH 



dows, which, in wintertime, are laid over the 

 fields, and fupported by moveable poles fix feet 

 high. 



The bujbandry 'or eecmomhal Garden is an ex- 

 cellent ufeful modern eftablifhment, directed by 

 the celebrated Mr. Pietro Arduini, now Profejfir 

 Oeconomia rurnlis. The main object: of this gar- 

 den is> to have at hand, for experiments in agri- 

 culture, ceconomy, dying, &c. convenient quan- 

 tities of ceconomical plants and trees. Mr. Ar- 

 duini has "publimed already a volume of his obfer- 

 vations. It is a very promifing eftablifhment. 

 Mr. Ardulni follows the Linnean fyftem. 



The academical collection of natural curiofities 

 contains the old cabinet of the immortal Antonio 

 Valifneri> late profeflbr of natural hiftory at Pa- 

 dua. He was fucceeded in that place by his fon 

 il Cavaliers Antonio Valifneri, who is already much 

 advanced in years. 



The collection is fomewhat impaired by dud; 

 Betides, it did not anfwer my expectation, either on 

 account of the quality or the number cf its curiofi- 

 ties. What I moil delighted to obferve was petrified 

 fnells in red jafper, different fpecimens of Bref- 

 cian agates ; Sicilian agates ; red and white fpotted 

 porphyry, from Cricetta, in the Venetian domi- 

 nions ; and a piece of an anchor-cable incruftated 

 , by a calcareous tufo-ftone, which contained natural 

 unpetrified (hells. They fhewed me likewife two 

 5 pieces 



