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ground other than Lord Stanford's, is as safe from his gun 

 as if in Guinea. 



September 21. I returned to town this morning with 

 my Pheasant. Reached my exhibition room and received 

 miserable accounts. I see plainly that my expenses in 

 Manchester will not be repaid, in which case I must move 

 shortly. I called on Dr. Hulme and represented the 

 situation, and he went to the Academy of Natural History 

 and ordered a committee to meet on Saturday, to see if the 

 Academy could give me a room. Later I mounted my 

 pheasant, and all is ready for work to-morrow. 



September 22. I have drawn all day and am fatigued. 

 Only twenty people to see my birds ; sad work this. The 

 consul, Mr. Brookes, came to see me, and advised me to 

 have a subscription book for my work. I am to dine with 

 him at Mr. Lloyd's at one next Sunday. 



September 23. My drawing this morning moved rapidly, 

 and at eleven I walked to the Exchange and met Dr. 

 Hulme and several other friends, who told me the Com- 

 mittee had voted unanimously to grant me a room gratis 

 to exhibit my drawings. I thanked them most heartily, 

 as this greatly lessens my expenses. More people than 

 usual came to my rooms, and I dined with Mr. Samuel 

 Gregg, Senior, in Fountain Street. I purchased some chalk, 

 for which I paid more than four times as much as in 

 Philadelphia, England is so overdone with duty. I visited 

 the cotton mills of George Murray, Esq., where fifteen 

 hundred souls are employed. These mills consist of a 

 square area of about eight acres, built round with houses 

 five, six, and seven stories high, having in the centre of the 

 square a large basin of water from the canal. Two engines 

 of forty and forty-five horse-power are kept going from 

 6 A. M. to 8 P. M. daily. Mr. Murray himself conducted 

 me everywhere. This is the largest establishment owned 

 by a single individual in Manchester. Some others, be- 

 longing to companies, have as many as twenty-five hundred 



