10 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
ing the birds. About this time he began 
a series of drawings of the French birds, 
which grew to upwards of two hundred, 
all bad enough, he says, but yet real 
representations of birds, that gave him a 
certain pleasure. They satisfied his need 
of expression. 
At about this time, too, though the 
year we do not know, his father con- 
cluded to send him to the United States, 
apparently to occupy a farm called Mill 
Grove, which the father had purchased. 
some years before, on the Schuylkill 
river near Philadelphia. In New York 
he caught the yellow fever: he was. 
carefully nursed by two Quaker ladies. 
who kept a boarding house in Morris- 
town, New Jersey. 
In due time his father’s agent, Miers. 
Fisher, also a Quaker, removed him to 
his own villa near Philadelphia, and 
here Audubon seems to have remained. 
some months. But the gay and ardent 
youth did not find the atmosphere of the 
