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the Herd of Deer," several large hawks, and some beau 

 tiful squirrels. Having added considerably to his col- 

 lection, he began again to think of returning to England, 

 to increase the drawings already being published there. 



" Our plans," he writes, addressing his sons, " were 

 soon arranged. Your mother collected the moneys due 

 her, and on the first of January, eighteen hundred and 

 thirty, we started for New Orleans, taking with us the only 

 three servants yet belonging to us, namely, Cecilia, and 

 her two sons, Reuben and Lewis. We stayed a few days 

 at our friend Mr. Brand's, with whom we left our servants, 

 and on the seventh of January took passage in the splen- 

 did steamer Philadelphia for Louisville, paying sixty dol- 

 lars fare. We were fourteen days getting to Louisville, 

 having had some trouble with the engine. I passed my 

 time there at Mr. Berthond's and your uncle W. Bake- 

 well's, and amused myself hunting and stuffing birds until 

 the seventh of March, when we took a steamer for Cin- 

 cinnati, and thence to Wheeling, and so on to Washing- 

 ton in the mail-coach. Congress was in session, and I 

 exhibited my drawings to the House of Representatives, 

 and received their subscription as a body. I saw the 

 President, Andrew Jackson, wiio received me with great 

 kindness, as he did your mother also afterv/ards. I be- 

 came acquainted with the Hon. Edward Everett, Baron 

 Krudener, and other distinguished persons, and we left 

 for Baltimore. There my drawings were exhibited, and I 

 obtained three subscribers, and left for Philadelphia, 

 where we remained one week. I saw my friends Harlan, 

 Mr. McMurtrie, and Sully, and went to New York, from 

 whence we sailed in the packet-ship Pacific, Captain R. 

 Crocker, for England. 



" After a passage of twenty-five days, on which noth- 

 ing happened worthy of record, we had crossed the At 

 lantic and arrived safely in Liverpool. 



