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uever wearied of exerting himself, for bis affections ouce roused were acutely sensi- 

 tive and tender. Glover was possessed of great i^bysical 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 somewliat premature failure of his 

 powers. 



Professor Glover bas more tbau ouce stated to the writer that the 

 scar upon the side of his head was made by the bursting of a gun bar- 

 rel aud Mrs. Glover verifies the statemeut. It occurred, too, before he 

 went to Munich, for there is a reference to his fractured skull in hi& 

 journal. However the iujury was inHicted, 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 JNIr. 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 21 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 time, 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 point in his life. The fine, open scenery, the lakes 

 and vast rivers of the United States appeared to exercise a powerful 

 intiuence 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, aud i)articularly in the South, 

 making New Eochelle his headquarters, for there are records of his 

 having remained in i>rew Eochelle, near New York, at various times 

 during the years 1836 to 1839. He was in New Eochelle 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. 



Mrs. Glover tells me that he finally settled in New Eochelle in th& 

 spring of 1838, and here his dog and gun, or rod and boat, were almost 

 constant companions; his boat, which he built and was very much 



