viii Contents, 



ies Oil Painting — Visit to Bayou Sara — Leaves for Louis- 

 ville wilh his son Victor — Wanderings through the Wilds — 

 Kesidence at Louisville — The Waste of Waters — The Flood- 

 ed Forest Z^ 



CHAPTER VIIL 



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. Ii8 



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 XL 



Provincial Canvass for Subscribers — Visit to London — The Great 

 Work in Progress ; — Horrors of London. .... 149 



CHAPTER XII. 



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

 ences — Farewell to France. . . . . . 161 



CHAPTER Xm. 

 Return to London — Sets Sail for America — l^tiends in New 

 York. . ^ . . iSi 



CHAPTER XIV. 

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

 England — Provincial Canvass — East Florida. , . 197 



CHAPTER XY. 

 Floridian Episodes — The Live Oakers 235 



