CHAPTER VIII. 



Auaubon reaches Philadelphia Introduction to Sully the Painter 

 Introduction to the Prince of Canino A Gigantic Engraver ~ 

 Meetings with Rosier and Joseph Mason Visit to Mill Grovt 

 and FatlandA noble Gift Audubon leaves Philadelphia 



Arrival at New York Meeting with Joseph Bonaparte 

 Leaves New York, and arrives at Albany Visit to Niagara 

 A Voyage down the Ohio to the South Arrival at Cincinnati 



Voyage to Bayou Sara Meeting Mrs. Audubon Turns 

 Dancing-master. 



jUDUBON reached Philadelphia on April 5, 

 1824. The journey to that city was undertaken 

 as a desperate venture to obtain help to com- 

 plete his ornithological work, and he was soon satisfied 

 that the venture would be successful. 



" I purchased a new suit of clothes, and dressed my- 

 self with extreme neatness ; after which I called upon Dr. 

 Mease, an old friend. I was received with kindness, 

 and was introduced to a gentleman named Earle, who ex- 

 hibited my drawings. I was also introduced to several 

 artists, who paid me pleasant attentions, and I also ob- 

 tained entrance to the Philadelphia Athenaeum and Phil- 

 osophical Library. I was fortunate in obtaining an in- 

 troduction to the portrait-painter, Sully, a man after my 

 own heart, and" who showed me great kindnesses. He 

 was a beautiful singer, and an artist whose hints and ad- 

 vice were of great service to me. I afterwards saw Sully 

 in London, where he was painting a portrait of the Queen 

 of England, and had an opportunity of returning his kind- 



