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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
[CH. II. 
they deposited their fossil bags and demanded refresh¬ 
ments. The old woman, much puzzled to make out their 
real character, set about her hospitable preparations. By 
the time they were complete, she had made up her mind. 
Placing the eggs and bacon on the table, she exclaimed : 
“Well, I never! fancy two real gentlemen picking up 
stones ! What won’t men do for money ? ” 
Among his tours must also be mentioned the extensive 
journeys which he made with Mr. Greenough in the 
years 1812-15, for the purpose of collecting materials 
for the Geological Map of England. His letters fre¬ 
quently allude to this elaborate work, on which he was 
long engaged. Writing in April 1814 to Conybeare, he 
says :—. 
“ I was not a little surprised to find from Greenough 
that he was in great hopes you would go with him to Paris 
to see Kings and Emperors, and Cuviers and Crocodiles. 
Should this actually take place, I need not, I trust, remind 
you to return loaded with a grand suite of specimens for 
the museum, and to establish a correspondence between 
Oxford and Paris, founded on an exchange of specimens. 
Illuminate Cuvier on the gypsum of Shotover, and press 
him to come and see us if he visits England. My lecture 
on the basin of Paris will be among the last of the set, so 
that you will be back in time to enrich it with your 
importation piping hot. I have made considerable pro¬ 
gress with Serle in the last three days in arranging the 
specimens in the lower cabinets, from granite to mountain 
limestone. If you go to Paris, pray send me the notes 
you had begun touching Moses and Huttonianism, and 
which you took with you to finish, should there be 
opportunity. Send me also your map of Germany, if you 
do not take it with you, that I may transfer its contents to 
my map of Europe for the lectures.” 
