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them at their residences, and General Stewart of Baltimore 

 invited me to make his house my home when I visited 

 there. 



" October 15. We have packed our trunks and sent 

 them on board the steamer, and leave this evening for 

 Philadelphia. The weather has been perfectly serene 

 and beautiful, and the Bay of New York never looked 

 more magnificent and grand to me. We soon glided 

 across its smooth surface and entered the narrow and 

 sinuous Raritan ; and as I saw flocks of ducks winging 

 their way southward, I felt happy in the thought that I 

 should ere long follow them to their winter abode. We 

 soon reached the railroad, and crossed to the Delaware, 

 and before six o'clock reached the house of my good 

 friend Dr. Harlan." 



Here Audubon saw many of his old friends, visited 

 the public works and institutions, and obtained a few 

 new species of birds. After speaking of the great changes 

 in that city, the journal says : " Passed poor Alexander 

 Wilson's school-house, and heaved a sigh. Alas, poor 

 Wilson ! would that I could once more speak to thee, and 

 listen to thy voice. When I was a j^outh, the woods stood 

 unmolested here, looking wild and fresh as if just from 

 the Creator's hands ; but now hundreds of streets cross 

 them, and thousands of houses and millions of diverse 

 improvements occupy their places : Barton's Garden is 

 the only place which is unchanged. I walked in the 

 same silent mood I enjoyed on the same spot when 

 first I visited the present owner of it, the descendant of 

 William Barton, the generous friend of Wilson." 



On November 8th, Audubon arrived in Washington. 

 Among many other letters of introduction given to peo- 

 ple in Washington, and transcribed carefully in the 

 journal, are the two following from Washington Irving. 



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