SCHEMNITZ. 357 
in no part of it will the traveller complain chap. 
of being retarded, owing to the grandeur of > 
the scenery around him. 
Upon our arrival, we found the town pre- Scuemnitz. 
pared for the reception of the two princes, 
Anton and Reiner, brothers of the Emperor. 
The inn to which we were conducted deserves 
to be mentioned, as perhaps superior to every 
other in Europe; and certainly as the cleanest 
in the world. Such was the extraordinary 
neatness of the apartments, and of every thing 
belonging to them, that we would not permit 
the servants to bring our baggage into the 
chambers we occupied. It is true that this 
might be in some measure owing to the expec- 
tation, universally entertained at the time, 
that the town would become filled with visi- 
tants of rank from Vienna, accompanying the 
suite of the two Princes : but the houses of 
Schemnitz are generally kept clean : many 
of them vie, in this respect, with the neatest 
dwellings in Holland. There is here a College uineT"^ 
of Mines ; and in no part of the world is the 
national importance of the science of Mineralogy 
more fully manifested. The College consists 
of one hundred and twelve students, of all 
nations ; but principally from Germany. There 
