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Buckland writes : “ We saw Goethe, and at Freyberg visited 
Werner, who gave us a grand supper, and talked learnedly 
of his books and music, and anything but Geology.” 
In another letter, written after his return to England, 
he says : “ The journey occupied five months of intense 
labour, employed in seeing every collection and professor 
that could be heard of, and purchasing every map, book, 
and print that has been published relative to our favourite 
science, or to the political economy of the countries we 
passed through.” 
His friends at Penrice Castle were also kept informed 
of his movements. In a long descriptive letter, written 
in April 1817, Buckland tells Lady Mary Cole that he has 
made “ a rich collection of the shells of the Sub-Apennine 
Hills, many of which resemble those of Hampshire and 
Sheppey Island, and it would have been more perfect had 
he not been arrested in the act of making it and sent back 
fifteen miles to prison at Parma!” In spite of this 
misfortune, he returned— 
“ highly satisfied with his tour, having accomplished every 
point that was in contemplation before he set off. 
Entering Hungary, he descended by the gold-mines of 
Kremnitz and Schemnitz over a most picturesque country, 
full of extinct volcanoes, to the great plain at the head of 
which stands Presburg ; thence to Vienna, where are noble 
collections in Natural History, by Styria and Carinthia 
(countries equal to Switzerland in sublime Alpine scenery) 
to Venice ; hence by the Eugancan Hills (extinct vol¬ 
canoes breaking up through chalk), Vicenza, Verona, 
Mantua, and Parma, visiting by the way the fossil fish 
quarries of Monte Bolca, which are in a formation above 
and lying on chalk, and allied to the English Sheppey clay 
