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ies Oil Painting Visit to Bayou Sara Leaves for Loui 

 villewilh his son Victor Wanderings through the Wilds 

 Residence at Louisville The Waste of Waters The Flood- 

 ed Forest. 88 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Audubon reaches Philadelphia Introduction to Sully the Painter 



Meetings with Rosier and Joseph Mason Audubon leaves 

 Philadelphia Arrival at New York Leaves New York, 

 and arrives at Albany Visit to Niagara A Voyage down 

 the Ohio to the South Arrival at Cincinnati Turns Dan- 

 cing-master. . 100 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Audubon Sails from New Orleans for England on board the Delos 



Incidents of the Voyage Arrival at Liverpool Visit to 

 Manchester Opening of Subscription-book for great work 

 Edinburgh Drawings exhibited at the Royal Institution. 1 18 



CHAPTER X. 



Edinburgh The Royal Society Scott Edinburgh People 

 Sydney Smith and a Sermon Miss O'Neill the Actress 

 Mrs. Grant of Laggan Prospectus of the Great Work. 135 



CHAPTER XI. 



Provincial Canvass for Subscribers Visit to London The Great 

 Work hi Progress Horrors of London. ... 149 



CHAPTER XII. 



Visit to Paris Baron Cuvier Reception at the Academy of Sci- 

 ences Farewell to France. 161 



CHAPTER Xltt 



Return to London Sets Sail for America Friends in New 

 York. 181 



CHAPTER XIV. 



The Meeting with his Wife and Sons Return with his Wife to 

 England Provincial Canvass East Florida. . . 197 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Flor'dian Episodes The Live Oakers 335 



