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profound bow was the answer, and I was conducted to 

 .another room, where several gentlemen were seated writing. 

 I let one- of them know my errand, and in a moment was 

 shown into an immense and superbly furnished apartment,-* 

 and my book was ordered to be brought up. In this room 

 I bowed to two gentlemen whom I knew to be members of 

 the Legion d'Honneur, and walked about admiring the 

 fine marble statues and the paintings. A gentleman 

 soon came to me, and, asked if perchance my name 

 was Audubon? I bowed, and he replied.:- "Bless me, we 

 thought that -you had gone and left your 'portfolio ; my. 

 uncle has been waiting for you twenty minutes ; pray, 

 sir, follow me." We passed through a. file of bowing 

 domestics, and a door being opened I saw the Duke 

 coming towards me, to whom I was introduced by the 

 nephew. Lucy, Kentucky, Tennessee, ancf, Alabama have 

 furnished the finest men in the world, as regards physical 

 beauty; I have also seen many a noble-looking Osage, 

 chief; but I do not recollect a finer-looking man, in form, • 

 deportment, and manners, than this Due d'Orleans. He 

 had my book brought up, and helped me to untie the 

 strings and arrange the table, and began by saying that he 

 felt a . great pleasure in subscribing to the work of an 

 American, for that he had been most kindly treated in the 

 United States, and should never forget it. The_p ortfo1io 

 was at last opened, and when I held up the plate of the 

 Baltimore Orioles, with a nest swinging amongst the tender 

 twigs of the yellow poplar, he said : " This surpasses all I 

 have seen, and I am not astonished now at the eulogiums 

 of M.. Redoute." He spoke partly English, and partly 

 French ; spoke much of America, of Pittsburgh, the Ohio, 

 New Orleans, the Mississippi, steamboats, etc., etc., and 

 added: "You are a great nation, a wonderful nation." 



The Duke promised me to write to the Emperor of 

 Austria, King of Sweden, and other crowned heads, and 

 asked me to write to-day to the Minister of the Interior. I 



