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drawings. Feeling, as I was forced to do, that my com- 

 pany was not agreeable, I parted from him ; and after 

 that I never saw him again. But judge of my astonish- 

 ment some time after, when on reading the thirty-ninth 

 page, of the ninth volume of ' American Ornithology,' I 

 found in it the following paragraph : 



"'March 23, 1810. I bade adieu to Louisville, to 

 which place I had four letters of recommendation, and 

 was taught to expect much of everything there; but 

 neither received one act of civility from those to whom I 

 was recommended, one subscriber, nor one new bird ; 

 though I delivered my letters, ransacked the woods 

 repeatedly, and visited all the characters likely to 

 subscribe. Science or literature has not one friend in this 

 place.' " 



