Drs Hoppe and Homschuch’s 'Tour to the Coast of the 
At the close of the hour applause was again given, the purport 
of which we did not learn ! 
44 After dinner, we visited the Cabinet of Natural History % 
where we expected much gratification, having been so pleased 
with that of Fesel at Saltzburg. But in this we were disap- 
pointed. The collection of shells was inconsiderable. The birds 
and insects were still worse ; the fish the best, in point of pre- 
servation. The minerals stand in need of the occasional inspec- 
tion of a mineralogist ; the other departments require respectively 
a zoologist, an ornithologist, a conchologist, an ichthyologist, 
and an entomologist ; in order that the several collections may 
be completely and systematically arranged, and enriched with 
the newest subjects and discoveries. If, however, a single per- 
son is placed here, who, 4 in omnibus aliquid, in toto nihil est, 1 the 
whole will go to ruin, and the subjects will be shortly devoured 
piecemeal by the maggots. We afterwards took a walk on the 
ramparts and the Brenta. The day was very warm, and we 
saw Dr aba verna in flower; but nothing of D. muralis , which 
Scopoli mentions as plentiful here. 
44 Treviso , March 1 6th. — An Italian Walk. — We arose in 
Padua early this morning, in order to proceed on our jour- 
ney by the road. We breakfasted at a coffee-house in the 
street at Stra, and found, in our host, a German from Carls- 
ruhe, whose name is Hoy er. We took advantage of this op- 
portunity to procure information respecting our route. M. 
Hoyer thought that it would be difficult for us to reach Tre- 
viso to-day ; but, if we should succeed, to-morrow we might get 
to Pordenone, and on the next day walk to Udine, which will 
be good travelling. 
44 From Stra we passed Dolo, Lamira, Mestre, and, in the even- 
ing, after a walk of eleven hours, arrived at Treviso. We had 
now passed through upper Italy : a noble country. The riches 
and splendour of the pristine condition of Venice, were every 
where exhibited in tho superb country houses which, like the 
palaces of our citizens, are seen on every side. The whole 
country is a continued paradise ; a succession of gardens, in 
which the vines are led, like garlands, from one tree to another, 
* Formed almost entirely, if I mistake not, by Vallisneri.— Eo. 
