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to London, and following the example of Wilson 
in America, exhibited there the engravings of 
his work. This measure, to which he was 
greatly disinclined, he resolved to take from the 
conviction of its expediency, as it promised a 
more immediate recognition than he could other 
wise obtain. In his crowded reception-room he 
listened to the varied remarks of his visitors, and 
was recompensed for the sacrifice of his feelings 
by the numerous subscriptions thus received. 
In Manchester he obtained upwards of twenty 
in one week, and had the good fortune to form 
there, moreover, several friendships which con- 
tinued with hin through life. 
Through Chester, Birmingham, and classic 
Oxford he continued his tour, until, with alter- 
nating hope and fear, he approached the great 
metropolis of England. With mingled admira- 
tion and horror this citizen of the new world 
beheld its sharp contrast of wretchedness and 
magnificence—raising his eyes from squalid 
poverty and despairing crime to noble monu- 
ments and mansions of aristocratic pomp. As 
the bearer of numerous introductions to Euro- 
pean celebrities, from statesmen and others of dis- 
tinction, in his own country, he had seemingly 
a good foundation on which to establish an inter- 
course favourable to his intentions. But the 
busy unceasing engrossment of London existence 
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