28 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 
CHAPTER III. 
UDUBON continued to make valuable ad- 
ditions to his collection, until his portfo- 
ho was enriched by nearly two hundred draw- 
ings. He received the most friendly assistance 
from Galt, the botanist, Ferguson and others. 
Thus welcomed and encouraged, perhaps no | 
epoch of his life was happier; nor can we imag: * 
ine pleasanter pictures than those afforded by 
the hours of hospitable entertainment, friendly 
intercourse, and communings of love at Louis- 
ville. One circumstance which occurred during 
his residence there, in 1810, seems to have been 
especially remembered by him. He was sur- 
prised by a visit from the celebrated Alexander 
Wilson, author of the American Ornithology, 
of whose existence even ‘he had been in igno- 
rance until then. The peculiarity of Wilson’s 
countenance and appearance was vividly retained 
in Audubon’s memory, impressed probably more 
particularly from the strangeness of the con- 
uected circumstances, 
His long hooked nose, keen eyes and promi 
