104 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
my nervous system. I slept not for several nights, and the 
days passed like days of oblivion,—until, the animal powers 
being recalled into action, through the strength of my consti- 
tution, I took up my gun, my note-book and my pencils, and 
went forth to the wocds as gaily as if nothing had happened. 
I felt pleased that I might now make much better drawings 
than before, and, ere a period not exceeding three years had 
elapsed, I had my portfolio filled again. 
America being my country, and the principal pleasures of 
my life having been obtained there, I prepared to leave it 
with deep sorrow, after in vain trying to publish my illustra- 
tions in the United States. In Philadelphia, Wilson’s prin- 
cipal engraver, amongst others, gave it as his opinion to my 
friends, that my drawings could never be engraved. In New 
York, other difficulties presented themselves, which deter- 
mined me to carry my collections to Europe. 
As I approached the coast of England, and for the first 
time beheld her fertile shores, the despondency of my spirits 
became very great. I knew not an individual in the country; 
and, although I was the bearer of letters from American 
friends and statesmen of great eminence, my situation ap- 
peared precarious in the extreme. I imagined that every 
individual whom I was about to meet, might be possessed of 
talents superior to those of any on our side of the Atlantic! 
Indeed, as I for the first time walked on the streets of Liver- 
pool, my heart nearly failed me, for not a glance of sympathy 
did I meet in my wanderings, for two days To the woods I 
sould not betake myself, for there were none near. 
Well received in England, he passes through to Scotland. 
Gallant and beautiful spirit! there was no need of woods 
for thee to hide! The noble work of Wilson had not long 
been finished then, and men were not done wondering at this 
glorious achievement of the Paisely weaver, who had left their 
own shores years ago, a poor and obscure adventurer for the 
forests of the New World, when another pilgrim from those 
