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lieve, ever knew where he resided, nor in what manner he 

 lived. The profession of savant is not a very profitable one, 

 yet with the few opportunities he had to advance his interest, 

 he had succeeded, through the most strict saving, in laying aside 

 a competency for his old age, even had he not inherited the 

 estate of Nutgrove. He once travelled on foot to Westches- 

 ter in his usual travelling dress, carrying his provisions with 

 him, and a basket of minerals which he intended exchanging 

 for Westchester specimens. Without stopping at any hotel, 

 he visited the mineralogists of the place, and having accom- 

 plished his object, the gentleman with whom he had made 

 exchanges, asked him where he would send the package, and 

 what direction he would put on it ? Nuttall answered simply 

 to write Thomas Nuttall, and he would call himself for it. 

 At this name, so well known by scientific men, the gentleman 

 retorted, ''Any relation, sir, to the great botanist?" "I 

 believe, himself," said Nuttall. Upon this he was cordially 

 invited to a more tempting dinner than that he was carrying 

 in his basket. 



At last the time appointed for the departure of Captain 

 Wyeth's expedition was at hand, and Nuttall bade adieu to 

 his Philadelphia friends. He was accompanied by Mr. John 

 K. Townsend, a young naturalist who was sent out on the 

 joint account of the Philosophical Society and of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences. The expedition was undertaken by the 

 Columbia Fishing and Trading Company, for the purpose 

 chiefly of establishing trading-posts beyond the Rocky Moun- 

 tains and on the coast of the Pacific. Capt. Wyeth had col- 

 lected at St. Louis and Independence a party of men to cross 

 the continent, and this party Messrs. Nuttall and Townsend 

 joined at St. Louis on the 24th of March, 1834. On the 

 29th following, they both started on foot from the capital of 

 Missouri, arrived at Fulton on the 6th of April, and at 

 Brownville on the 8th. 



There they were joined by Capt. Wyeth, and embarked 

 with him on a steamer for Independence, where the whole 

 party had rendezvoused. " On the 28th of April," says Mr. 

 Townsend, " at 10 o'clock in the morning, our caravan, consist- 



