320 LIFE OF AUDUBON. 



CHAPTEE LII. 



In America — Delaware Eivee— Philadelphia — Boston — Friends and 

 Birds — Thomas Nuttall — ^Excuesion to Salem — A "Beautiful 

 Blue-Stooking " — Meeting with Daniel Webster — Back to Kbw 

 York — Social Meetings — Thoughts coNCERNma Wilson the Or- 

 nithologist. 



Septemler 13. Audubon remained in New York until this date, 

 obtained two subscribers and the promise of two more, visited 

 the markets and found a few specimens of new birds, and left 

 for Philadelphia ; paid three dollars for his fare on the steamer 

 Swan, and fifty cents for his dinner ; " but," the journal adds, 

 "we were too thick to thrive. I could get only a piece of 

 bread and butter, snatched from the table at a favourable 

 moment. 



"1 found the country through which we passed greatly im- 

 proved, dotted with new buildings, and the Delaware Kiver 

 seemed to me handsomer than ever. I reached Philadelphia 

 at six o'clock p.m., and found Dr. Harlan waiting for me on the 

 wharf, and he took me in his carriage to his hospitable house, 

 where I was happy in the presence of his amiable wife and 

 interesting son. 



" September 14. Went to the market with Dr. Harlan at five 

 o'clock this morning ; certainly this market is the finest one in 

 America. The flesh, fish, fruit and vegetables, and fowls, are 

 abundant, and about fifty per cent, less than in New York ; 

 where, in fact, much of the produce of Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey is taken now-a-days for sale — even game ! I bought two 



