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and Philip, who had reprinted extracts from his writings, as 

 Oberlin Tracts, was very desirous to see him. He was much 

 pleased with the college, where coloured students were admitted, 

 and young men and young women were taught together (living 

 in separate boarding-houses) ; and a lady (Mrs. Dean, a niece 

 of Horace Mann) was one of the professors. 



Mr. Mann, who received him very cordially, was overcome 

 with hard work \ and a few days after (August 2) he died of 

 typhoid fever. Mrs. Dean, who wrote to inform Philip of her 

 uncle's death, said that, after the tenderest parting words to 

 the family, " for more than two hours he took students of the 

 college by the hand, speaking, with the nicest appreciation of 

 the character of each, such words of counsel as each most 

 needed — earnest, eloquent, loving Christian words, which will 

 live and bear fruit in the hearts of these young people all 

 through their lives. He died as he had lived, with his thoughts 

 devoted to the interests of others, with expressions of reverence 

 for God and love for men upon his lips." 



At Cincinnati, he found a congenial home for several days 

 with Mr. Anthony, who had the reputation in England of being 

 " a most careful, accurate, and honest naturalist, to be trusted 

 in all matters of Unionidae," etc., and whom he found an earnest 

 friend of freedom. Philip gained much interesting information 

 respecting the working of the Fugitive Slave Law, and crossed 

 the river to call on Mr. Bailey, who had suffered severely in 

 his attempts to publish his paper, " The Free South," in a Slave 

 State. The heat was then extreme — about ioo° in the shade, 

 130 0 in the sun. Many were killed by the sun in the streets ; 

 and yet, from the clearness of the air, he did not feel it so 

 oppressive as a London summer. 



Thence he went by steamer to Louisville, and walked 

 mostly through woods to the celebrated Mammoth Cave, so 

 called from its size; for it is " the Niagara of caves." He felt 

 much repulsion to the hotel life there. " It is very appalling to 

 pass the entrance and thread one's way through the pack of 

 lazy, drinking, smoking Southerners, all staring at you with 

 the air of men who are accustomed to know everybody's busi- 



