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stores, the contents of which are the rarest materials ever em- 

 ployed by nature. 



To this friend he wrote again from Eastport on the 

 14th of the same month: 



As to my making use of your name in my letterpress, I shall 

 act as you desire, and yet I hope and fully expect no denial on 

 your part, on such occasions as will grant me the pleasure of 

 giving public notice of the treatment I have received from you. 

 I owe such a thing to you as a trifling, very trifling, mark of my 

 gratitude towards one, whom I shall never cease to admire and 

 esteem. 



The National Gazette of Philadelphia for May 2, 

 1833, devoted an editorial to Audubon and his prospec- 

 tive Labrador journey, in which the writer said: "We 

 wish him a degree of success and prolongation of vigor 

 equal to his great merits: indeed, for the past at least, 

 success is fully assured." He added that between fifty 

 and sixty subscribers to The Birds of America had then 

 been obtained in the United States; Boston had fur- 

 nished eighteen ; New York, eleven ; Philadelphia, four ; 

 Baltimore, eight; Savannah, seven; Louisville, two, and 

 New Orleans, three; moreover, the legislatures of Mas- 

 sachusetts, New York, Maryland and South Carolina 

 and the Congressional Library were subscribers for one 

 copy each. The writer continued : 



A contribution to Mr. Audubon equal at least to that of 

 Boston or New York, would seem due from Philadelphia. The 

 subscription price may be considered as large ($ 1,000), but 

 how rich, ornamental, instructive, and entertaining is the work, 

 and how much preferable to the merely personal gewgaws or 

 transitory gratifications, upon which greater sums are as fre- 

 quently expended ! There are few minds of any refinement or 



