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cided Audubon to remove his residence from Lon- 

 don to Edinburgh. 



The tour through a healthful, interesting and 

 romantic country, with such a companion, did much 

 to restore Dr. Bachman to his wonted health of body 

 and spirit. On his return to London, his physicians 

 and friends confidently predicted a permanent, if 

 not speedy, restoration to perfect health. 



A large folio volume, ''Journal of European Travel,^' 

 carefully expanded from notes, and illustrated by 

 roughly drawn sketches, was a memorial of his 

 habit of close observation, and his industry in re- 

 cording the same. The book would have given us 

 interesting facts and valuable personal reminiscences 

 in connection with this period of his life. Unhap- 

 pily, during the late war between the States, this 

 volume shared the fate of the rest of his valuable 

 library. He had sent his books from Charleston 

 to Columbia for safety, and when the latter city was 

 burned, the flames did not spare his many rare 

 volumes. Nothing remains to us of the ''Journal of 

 European Travel,'^ but the brief pencilled sheets 

 from which the Journal was expanded. These, how- 

 ever, give us glimpses into his red-letter days — days 

 full of intellectual pleasure and profit. The animals, 

 birds, fishes, insects and fiora of the old world, were 

 all new to him, save in books. As he visits halls of 

 learning and eleemosynary institutions, as he listens 

 spell-bound to grand sacred music, and as he ex- 

 plores the Art Galleries containing the master-pieces 

 of the old artists, his soul is stirred within him. 



