38 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 



Audubon reached Hendersonville in 

 early March, and witnessed the severe 

 earthquake which visited that part of 

 Kentucky the following November, 1812. 

 Of this experience we also have a vivid 

 account in his journals. 



Audubon continued to live at Hender- 

 sonville, his pecuniary means much re- 

 duced. He says that he made a pedes- 

 trian tour back to St. Genevieve to col- 

 lect money due him from Eozier, walking 

 the one hundred and sixty-five miles, 

 much of the time nearly ankle- deep in 

 mud and water, in a little over three 

 days. Concerning the accuracy of this 

 statement one also has his doubts. Later 

 he bought a "wild horse, " and on its 

 back travelled over Tennessee and a por- 

 tion of Georgia, and so around to Phila- 

 delphia, later returning to Henderson- 

 ville. 



He continued his drawings of birds 

 and animals, but, in the meantime, em- 

 barked in another commercial venture, 



