VISIT TO EUROPE. 1il 
too with all his most cherished remembrances 
and best delights, he desired. there first to wit- 
ness the inauguration of his hopes. Yet, in 
Philadelphia, it was the opinion that his draw- 
ings could never be engraved. In New York 
he met with no better success. 
At length he determined to try the fate of his 
collection in Europe, whither in 1826, he directed 
his steps. Whether owing to rare modesty as 
to his endowments, or an exaggerated estimate 
of intellect on our side of the Atlantic, he seems 
to have been overwhelmed on approaching Eng- 
lish shores, with a sense of diffidence—“ imagin- 
ing,” he says, “that every individual he was 
about to meet might be possessed of talents 
superior to those of any one in America!” 
Visiting for the first time a foreign country, 
often pictured in his imagination, its resources 
and acquisitions magnified by contemplation, 
regarding it moreover with peculiar interest as 
an arena for the decision, as it were, of his 
destiny, such feelings might naturally arise in 
the unsophisticated heart of the American 
woodsman. Without friend or acquaintance 
he could not anticipate a single welcome on his 
arrival. Soon, however, his position was such 
as to cause all his scruples to vanish. The letters 
of introduction which he carried speedily pro: 
cured him a large and influential circle of friends 
