CHAPTER XXXIII. 



In America Philadelphia Boston Friends and Birds Meeting 

 with Daniel Webster Back to New York Social Meetings 

 Washington Two Letters of Washington Irving Interview 

 with the PresidentProposed Scientific Expedition. 



\EPTEMBER 13. Audubon remained in New 

 York until this date, obtained two subscribers 

 and the promise of two more, visited the mar- 

 kets and found a few specimens of new birds, and left for 

 Philadelphia; paid three dollars for his fare on the 

 steamer Swan, and fifty cents for his dinner; "but," the 

 journal adds, "we were too thick to thrive. I could get 

 only a piece of bread and butter, snatched from the table 

 at a favorable moment. 



" I found the country through which we passed great- 

 ly improved, dotted with new buildings, and the Delaware 

 River seemed to me handsomer than ever. I reached 

 Philadelphia at six o'clock p. M., and found Dr. Harlan 

 waiting for me on the wharf, and he took me in his car- 

 riage to his hospitable house, where I was happy in the 

 presence of his amiable wife and interesting son. 



" September 24. Went to the market with Dr. Harlan 

 at five o'clock this morning ; certainly this market is the 

 finest one in America. The flesh, fish, fruit and vege- 

 tables, and fowls, are abundant, and about fifty per cent 

 less than in New York ; where, in fact, much of the pio- 

 duce of Pennsylvania and New Jersey is taken now-a-days 

 for sale even game ! I bought two soras (cedar birds) 

 for forty cents, that in New York would have brought 



