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COLONEL JEWETT. 



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(Sunday), they reached New York ; the cabin passengers were 

 allowed to land, but the Custom-House officers would not 

 attend to those in the steerage. The captain had asked Philip 

 to take the evening service : " We had a very solemn service, 

 singing 'Jesu, lover of my soul/ and 'For ever nigh me, 

 Saviour, stand. ' I preached with great liberty from 6 This is 

 the love of God, that we keep His commandments : ' I took 

 illustrations from the ship and storms, and touched the hearts 

 of the people by picturing their probable future lives in varied 

 circumstances. Then the passengers devoted themselves to 

 packing up their boxes, deluded beings !" This exclamation 

 arose from finding that they were all rummaged next morning 

 by the Custom-House officers, who were in an ill humour ! His 

 collection, etc., was removed to the Custom-House, and he was 

 indignant at the treatment it received. It appeared that as one 

 of his boxes was declared as a magic-lantern, slides, etc., they 

 suspected that others might contain similar goods which he 

 was intending to smuggle ! At length they gave him for signa- 

 ture a declaration on oath — that the slides, etc., were for his 

 personal use as a lecturer : and the duty was remitted. "They 

 made no bones about affirmation ; so I simply drew my pen 

 through the wicked words, wrote affirm, and signed it. My 

 landlord, who had been in the C. H., laughed, saying that a 

 few judicious dollars would have settled it easier. However, it 

 is good for learning experience and patience." 



On arriving, December 29, at Albany, the capital of the 

 State of New York, he was kindly received by Colonel Jewett,* 

 the curator of the State Museum. Although the curator was 

 an officer, and also opposed to the Abolitionists, he had such 

 kindness of heart, as well as ardour as a naturalist, that they 

 soon became cordial friends. He found Philip disturbed at 



* The number of " Harper's Weekly Journal " which gave an obituary of 

 Philip, also paid a tribute to Colonel Jewett, who died in California, a 

 week before him (May 18, 1877), set, 85. He had an eventful career as a 

 soldier, and was one of the explorers of California in 1849. His valuable 

 geological collection, very rich in fossils, was sold to the Cornell University 

 for io,oo3 dollars, and he left behind him a conchological collection said to 

 contain some 14,000 species. Philip often referred to his collections in his 

 Reports to the British Association, etc. 



