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profound bow was the answer, and I was conducted to 

 another room, where several gentlemen were seated writing. 

 I let one of them know my errand, and in a moment was 

 shown into an immense and superbly furnished apartment, 

 and my book was ordered to be brought up. In this room 

 I bowed to two gentlemen whom I knew to be members of 

 the Legion d'Honneur, and walked about admiring the 

 fine marble statues and the paintings. A gentleman 

 soon came to me, and asked if perchance my name 

 was Audubon? I bowed, and he replied: "Bless me, we 

 thought that you had gone and left your portfolio; my 

 uncle has been waiting for you twenty minutes ; pray, 

 sir, follow me." We passed through a file of bowing 

 domestics, and a door being opened I saw the Duke 

 coming towards me, to whom I was introduced by the 

 nephew. Lucy, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama have 

 furnished the finest men in the world, as regards physical 

 beauty; I have also seen many a noble-looking Osage 

 chief; but I do not recollect a finer-looking man, in form, 

 deportment, and manners, than this Due d'Orleans. He 

 had my book brought up, and helped me to untie the 

 strings and arrange the table, and began by saying that he 

 felt a great pleasure in subscribing to the work of an 

 American, for that he had been most kindly treated in the 

 United States, and should never forget it. The portfolio 

 was at last opened, and when I held up the plate of the 

 Baltimore Orioles, with a nest swinging amongst the tender 

 twigs of the yellow poplar, he said : " This surpasses all I 

 have seen, and I am not astonished now at the eulogiums 

 of M. Redoute." He spoke partly English, and partly 

 French ; spoke much of America, of Pittsburgh, the Ohio, 

 New Orleans, the Mississippi, steamboats, etc., etc., and 

 added: "You are a great nation, a wonderful nation." 



The Duke promised me to write to the Emperor of 

 Austria, King of Sweden, and other crowned heads, and 

 asked me to write to-day to the Minister of the Interior. I 



