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shopkeepers board in taverns—also boatmen, land-specu- 
laters, merchants &c.] No naturalist to keep me company. 
March 21, Went out shooting this afternoon with Mr. A. Saw 
a number of Sandhill Cranes. Pigeons numerous. 
March 22. 
March 23. Packed up my things which I left in the care of a 
merchant here, to be sent on to Lexington; and having 
parted with great regret, with my paroquet, to the gen- 
tleman of the tavern, I bade adieu to Louisville, to which 
place I had four letters of recommendation, and was taught 
to expect much of everything there, but neither received 
one act of civility from those to whom I was recommended, 
one subscriber, nor one new bird; though I delivered my 
letters, ransacked the woods repeatedly, and visited all the 
characters likely to subscribe. Science or literature has 
not one friend in this place. [Everyone is so intent on 
making money, that they can talk of nothing else; and they 
absolutely devour their meals, that they may return sooner 
to their business. Their manners correspond with their 
features. | 
In this fuller record we learn that Wilson spent five 
days in Louisville; he examined Audubon’s drawings on 
Monday, March 19, hunted alone on the 20th, went out 
shooting with Audubon on the 21st, and finally left 
Louisville on the morning of the 23d; no record was 
admitted by Ord for Sunday, the 18th, or for the 22d, 
a Thursday. Wilson noticed the drawings of two new 
Motacillae, or Warblers, in Audubon’s collection, and 
it would have been only natural that he should have felt 
a strong desire to copy them, yet not a word was said 
about the loan of drawings to which Audubon refers; 
Wilson merely stated that from those to whom he was 
recommended he had received not “one act of civility,— 
one subscriber, nor one new bird.” Audubon was evi- 
