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never wearied of exerting himself, for his affections once roused were acutely sensi- 
tive and tender. Glover was possessed of great physical activity, and though not 
skilled in horsemanship was fond of riding. On one occasion, it is stated, that whilst 
riding on a friend’s horse, which proved restive, he was thrown violently to the pave- 
ment, and his head striking the curbstone, he sustained a fracture of the skull. For 
some time his life remained in jeopardy, and though to all appearance he ultimately 
recovered from the effects of the accident, it has been suggested that the injury then 
received told on him in later years and led to the somewhat premature failure of his 
powers. 
Professor Glover has more than once stated to the writer that the 
scar upon the side of his head was made by the bursting of a gun bar- 
rel and Mrs. Glover verifies the statement. It occurred, too, before he 
went to Munich, for there is a reference to his fractured skull in his 
journal. However the injury was inflicted, I can not think the sug- 
gestion made above has any weight, as Mr. Glover’s peculiar and ir- 
regular mode of life in after afters, without recreation, and his pro- 
longe d ill-health for several years in a trying southern climate, were 
sufficient causes for his breaking down before reaching three score and 
ten. 
Whether or no Mr. Glover returned to Munich again can not be stated 
from any written records. During a few weeks of his first summer in 
Germany (1834), he made an extended pedestrian tour through the 
Tyrol with his German teacher by way of vacation and to learn the 
language. Some of his pencil sketches made in Tyrol are dated 1836, 
but as he-sailed for America June 24 of that year, he could only 
have made a flying visit to Germany, if at all. He decided to visit 
the United States through the representations of some relatives, young 
men who settled in America about this timé, though he did not at 
first entertain the idea of making it a permanent abiding place. His 
roving disposition prompting a period of adventure and sight-seeing 
before settling anywhere, he at first spent his time in travel. 
This was a turning pointinhis life. The fine, open scenery, the lakes 
and vast rivers of the United States appeared to exercise a powerful 
influence on his impressionable nature and led to his making it his home. 
For several years after coming to the New World he roamed at leisure 
through different parts of the country, and particularly in the South, 
making New Rochelle his headquarters, for there are records of his 
having remained in New Rochelle, near New York, at various times 
during the years 1836 to 1839. He was in New Rochelle August, 1836, 
and in that month started on a journey through New York State, thence 
West and South, the close of the year finding him in Louisiana and 
Texas. In 1837 he was again traveling about through the picturesque 
portions of New York State, and early in 1838 was once more South, 
visiting the Carolinas, Georgia, and adjacent States. 
Mis. Glover tells me that he finally settled in New Rochelle in: the 
spring of 1838, and here his dog and gun, or rod and boat, were almost 
constant companions; his boat, which be built and was very much 
