10 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 



ing the birds. About this time he began 

 a series of drawings of the French birds, 

 which grew to upwards of two hundred, 

 all bad enough, he says, but yet real 

 representations of birds, that gave him a 

 certain pleasure. They satisfied his need 

 of expression. 



At about this time, too, though the 

 year we do not know, his father con- 

 cluded to send him to the United States, 

 apparently to occupy a farm called Mill 

 Grove, which the father had purchased 

 some years before on the Schuylkill 

 river near Philadelphia. In New York 

 he caught the yellow fever : he was 

 carefully nursed by two Quaker -ladies 

 who kept a boarding house in Morris- 

 town, New Jersey. 



In due time his father's agent, Miers 

 Fisher, also a Quaker, removed him to 

 his own villa near Philadelphia, and 

 here Audubon seems to have remained 

 some months. But the gay and ardent 

 youth did not find the atmosphere of the 



