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cumstances. I was well received in New York by all my 

 acquaintances, and Dr. Paxallis took me to the Collector 

 of the Customs, who, on reading President Jackson's let 

 ters to me, gave free admission to my books and luggage. 

 My work was exhibited here, and a report made on it to 

 the New York Lyceum ; and I made the acquaintance of 

 Mr. William Cooper, the friend of Charles Bonaparte, a 

 fine, kind person. 



" May 14. I left New York for Philadelphia, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Thomas Wharton, an excellent, but not 

 remarkably intellectual man, and took board with Mrs. 

 Bradley, in Arch Street. There I spent three days, and 

 then removed to Camden, New Jersey, where I spent 

 three weeks in observing the habits of the migratory 

 warblers and other birds which arrive in vast numbers in 

 the spring. From there I returned to Philadelphia to 

 visit the sea-shores of New Jersey." 



Here follows his elaborate account of that visit. 



" GREAT EGG HARBOR. 



" Having made all the necessary preparations to 

 visit the sea-shores of New Jersey, for the purpose of 

 making myself acquainted with their feathered inhabi- 

 tants, I left early in June. The weather was pleasant, 

 and the country seemed to smile in the prospect of bright 

 days and gentle gales. Fishermen-gunners passed daily 

 between Philadelphia and the various small seaports, 

 with Jersey waggons laden with fish, fowls, and other pro- 

 vision, or with such articles as were required by the fami- 

 lies of those hardy boatmen ; and I bargained with one 

 of them to take myself and my baggage to Great Egg 

 Harbor. One afternoon, about sunset, the vehicle halt- 

 ed at my lodgings, and the conductor intimated that he 

 was anxious to proceed as quickly as possible. A trunk, 

 a couple of guns, and such other articles as are found 



