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the building, which is more picturesque, but the building is 

 the same." 



The one appearing in Rev. Grosart's book is less formal and 

 more sylvan in setting. The poplars have disappeared, and 

 the wide, spreading branches of the squirrel-haunted oaks 

 extend toward the building, the gable window frame is out of 

 plumb, the stone landing is lacking, and a figure of a man 

 faces the door ; the building shows dissolution and the sur- 

 roundings neglect. Dorsey Gardener's article in Scribner's 

 Monthly, March, 1876, is accompanied by an engraving from 

 a photograph of about the same time. A female figure ap- 

 pears between the entrance and window, the same old tree 

 droops a branch protectingly over the roof, a trifle wilder set- 

 ting than any other view. One month later a much clearer 

 engraving appeared in Harper's Magazine, in illustration of 

 Rebecca Harding Davis' article on Old Philadelphia. It lacks 

 the cloud effects and distant willow, a fringe of unsupported 

 branchlets intrudes to the left, and the female figure is more 

 distinct, otherwise the two are identical. In Scharf and West- 

 cott's History of Philadelphia, Vol. III., 1884, Scribner's cut 

 of this historic little building is used without change. 



(a) American Ornithology: \ or, | the Natural History of 

 the I Birds of the United States : j Illustrated with Plates | 

 Engraved and Colored from Original Drawings taken from 

 Nature. | By Alexander Wilson. | Vol. I. [-IX]. Philadel- 

 phia: I Published by Bradford and Inskeep. | Printed by Rob- 

 ert Carr [-Vols. I. and II., R. & W. Carr-Vols. HI. and IV., 

 Robert and William Carr-Vols. V.-IX.] | . . . . | 1808 [-1814]. 

 9 vols., imp. 4 to. 



Vol. I, 180S, pp. i-vi introduction, 1-158 Am. orn., pll. 1-9. Vol. 

 II, 1810, pp. iii-xii preface, 13-107 Am orn., pll. 10-18. Vol. Ill, 1811, 

 pp. iii-xvi preface and index, 17-120 Am. orn., pll. 19-27. Vol. IV, 

 1811, pp. iii-xii preface, 13-100 Am. orn., pll. 28-3G. Vol. V, 1812, 

 pp. iii.-xii preface, 13-122 Am. orn., pll. 37-45. Vol. VI, 1812. pp. iii- 

 xxi preface and index, 13-102 Am. orn., pll. 4G-54. Vol. VII, 1813, 

 pp. v-xii preface and index, 13-132 Am. orn., pll. 55-03. Vol. VIII, 

 1814, pp. v-xi preface and index, 13-140 Am. orn., pll. 04-72. A'ol. 

 IX, 1814, p. iv entered ae. act Congress fifth of June, 1812, by Alex- 



