CHAPTER XXXIIL 



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 President — Proposed 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 wliich 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. 



" Septemler 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 j where, in fact, much of the pro- 

 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 



