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CHAPTER XXXII. 



yournal Resumed^ Washmgt07i Irvi7ig — Wanderings South — Florida 

 Excu7-sion Abajtdoned — Returns North — Sails for Englattd — 

 Visit to Baron Rothschild — Refnoval to Edinburgh — Return to 

 Londo7t — Embarks with much Live Stock to N'ew York — Azotes 

 by the Way. 



EPTEMBER 7, 1833. After Audubon's return 

 from Labrador he remained three weeks in New 

 York, and then made all his preparations for a 

 journey to Florida. He forwarded to his son Victor, in 

 England, thirteen drawings of land birds, which he had 

 prepared to complete the second volume of the great 

 work; and he left seventeen drawings of sea birds to 

 be forwarded in October, for the commencement of his 

 third volume. As an evidence of the value Audubon set 

 on these drawings, we may note that he insured both par- 

 cels for two thousand dollars each. 



September 25. Mr. and Mrs. Audubon left New York 

 for Philadelphia on their way to Florida, leaving their son 

 John to sail from New York by water, " with all our arti- 

 cles of war," for Charleston, where they proposed to meet. 

 The journal says : " The weather was delightful, and we 

 reached Philadelphia at three o'clock, and took lodgings 

 with Mrs. Newlin, No. 112 Walnut Street Here I called 

 on some of my former friends and w^as kindly received. 

 I visited several public places in the cit\', but no one 

 stopped me to subscribe for my book." 



The following letter from Dr. McKenney of Philadel- 

 phia is inserted here as a capital specimen of a racy let- 



