440 LOUISVILLE. 



Some time elapsed, during which I never heard of him, or of his work. 

 At length, having occasion to go to Philadelphia, I, immediately after 

 my arrival there, inquired for him, and paid him a visit. He was then 

 drawing a White-headed Eagle. He received me with civility, and took 

 me to the Exhibition Rooms of Rembrandt Peale, the artist, who had 

 then portrayed Napoleon crossing the Alps. Mr Wilson spoke not of 

 birds or drawings. Feeling, as I was forced to do, that my company 

 was not agreeable, I parted from him ; and after that I never saw him 

 again. But judge of my astonishment some time after, when on reading 

 the thirty-ninth page of the ninth volume of American Ornithology, I 

 foimd in it the following paragraph : — 



" March 2Sd, 1810. — I bade adieu to Louisville, to which place I had 

 four letters of recommendation, and was taught to expect much of every 

 thing there ; but neither received one act of civility from those to whom 

 I was recommended, one subscriber, nor one new bird ; though I de- 

 livered my letters, ransacked the woods repeatedly, and visited all the 

 characters likely to subscribe. Science or literature has not one friend 

 in this place." 



