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noble family of the Ravensworths I also added to my friends, 

 and from them I have since received important benefits, parti- 

 cularly from the Honourable Thomas Liddell, whose par- 

 tiality for my pursuits induced him to evince a warm interest in 

 my favour, which I shall ever acknowledge with feelings of affec- 

 tion and esteem. 



It was there, reader, that, as my predecessor Wilson had 

 done in America, I for the first time in England exhibited some 

 engravings of my work, together with the contents of my port- 

 folios. I cannot say that the employment was a pleasant one to 

 me, nor do I believe it was so to him ; but by means of it he at 

 the time acquired that fame, of which I also was desirous of ob- 

 taining a portion ; and, knowing that should I be successful, it 

 would greatly increase the happiness of my wife and children, I 

 waged war against my feelings, and welcomed all, who, from 

 love of science, from taste, or from generosity, manifested an in- 

 terest in the " American Woodsman." 



See him, reader, in a room crowded by visitors, holding at 

 arm's length each of his large drawings, listening to the varied 

 observations of the lookers on, and feel, as he now and then did, 

 the pleasure which he experienced when some one placed his 

 sign manual on the list. This occupation was continued all the 

 way until I reached the skirts of London ; but the next place 

 to which I went was the city of York, where I formed acquaint- 

 ance with a congenial spirit, Mr Phillips, who is now well 

 known to you as an eminent Professor of Geology. There also 

 I admired the magnificent Minster, within whose sacred walls 1 

 in silence offered up my humble prayer to heaven. 



At Leeds, the Gotts, the Bankses, the Walkers, the 

 Marshalls, the Davys, were all extremely kind to me, and 



