viii Contents. 



ies Oil Painting — Visit to Bayou Sara — Leaves for Louis* 

 villewi'.h his son Victor — Wanderings through the Wilds — 

 Residence at Louisville — The Waste of Waters — The Flood- 

 ed Forest 88 



CHAPTER VIIL 

 Audubon reaches Philadelphia — Introduction to Sully the Painter 



— Meetings with Rosier and Joseph Mason — Audubon leaves 

 Philadelphia — Arrival at New York — Leaves New York, 

 and arrives at Albany — Visit to Niagara — A Voyage down 

 the Ohio to the South — Arrival at Cincinnati — Turns Dan- 

 cing-master. loo 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Audubon Sails from New Orleans for England on board the Delos 



— Incidents of the Voyage — Arrival at Liverpool — Visit to 

 Manchester — Opening of Subscription-book for great work — 

 Edinbuigh — Drawings exhibited at the Royal Institution. Ii8 



CHAPTER X. 



Edinburgh — The Royal Society — Scott — Edinburgh People — 

 Sydney Smith and a Sermon — Miss O'Neill the Actress — 

 Mrs. Grant of Laggan — Prospectus of the Great Work. 135 



CHAPTER XL 



Provincial Canvass for Subscribers — Visit to London — The Great 

 Work in Progress — Horrors of London. . . . 149 



CHAPTER Xir. 

 Visit to Paris — Baron Cuvier — -Reception at the Academy of Sci- 

 ences — Farewell to France. 161 



CHAPTER XIIL 

 Return to London — Sets Sail for America — Friends in New 

 York. ......... 181 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 The Meeting with his Wife and Sons — Return with his "V'ifv to 

 England — Provincial Canvass — East Florida. , . 197 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Floridian Episodes — The Live Oakers 235 



