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of the Atlantic. Indeed, as I for the first time 

 walked on the streets of Liverpool, my heart 

 nearly failed me, for not a glance of sympathy 

 did I meet in my wanderings for two days. 

 To the woods I could not betake myself, for 

 there were none near. 



" But how soon did all around me assume a 

 different aspect ! How fresh is the recollection 

 of the change ! The very first letter which I 

 tendered procured me a world of friends. The 

 Rathbones, the lloscoes, the Trails, the Chor- 

 leys, the Mellies, and others, took me by the 

 hand ; and so kind and beneficent — nay, so 

 generously kind — have they all been towards 

 me, that I can never cancel the obligation. My 

 drawings were publicly exhibited, and publicly 

 praised. Joy swelled my heart. The first 

 difficulty was surmounted. Honours which, 

 on application being made through my friends, 

 Philadelphia had refused, Liverpool freely 

 accorded. 



"Heft that emporium of commerce with many 

 a passport, bent upon visiting fair Edina, for I 

 longed to see the men and the scenes immor- 

 talized by the fervid strains of Burns, and the 

 glowing eloquence of Scott and Wilson. I 

 arrived at Manchester, and here, too, the Greggs, 

 the Lloyds, the Sergeants, the Holmes, the 

 Blackwalls, the Bentleys, and many others, 



