. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. ;?i 240 AUDUBON til •:. covered with dark ivy, fissured by time and menacing its neighborhood with an appearance of all tumbling down at no remote period. I turned east and came to a pretty little stream called the Ouse, over which I threw several pebbles by way of exercise. On the west bank I found a fine walk, planted with the only trees of size I have seen in this country; it extended about half a mile. Looking up the stream a bridge of fine stone is seen, and on the opposite shores many steam mills were in operation
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. ;?i 240 AUDUBON til •:. covered with dark ivy, fissured by time and menacing its neighborhood with an appearance of all tumbling down at no remote period. I turned east and came to a pretty little stream called the Ouse, over which I threw several pebbles by way of exercise. On the west bank I found a fine walk, planted with the only trees of size I have seen in this country; it extended about half a mile. Looking up the stream a bridge of fine stone is seen, and on the opposite shores many steam mills were in operation. I followed down this mighty stream till the road gave out, and, the grass being very wet and the rain falling heavily, 1 returned to my rooms. York is much cleaner than Newcastle, and I remarked more Quakers; but alas ! how far both these towns are below fair Edinburgh. The houses here are low, covered with tiles, and sombre-look- ing. No birds have I seen except Jackdaws and Rooks. To my surprise my host waited upon me at supper; when he enters my room I think of Scroggins' ghost. I have spent my evening reading " Blackwood's ; April24. How doleful has this day been to me! It pleased to rain, and to snow, and to blow cold all day. I called on Mr. Phillips, the curator of the Museum, and he assured me that the society was too poor to purchase my work. I spent the evening by invitation at the Rev. Wm. Turner's in company with four other gentlemen. Politics and emancipation were the chief topics of conver- sation. How much more good would the English do by revising their own intricate laws, and improving the con- dition of their poor, than by troubling themselves and their distant friends with what does not concern them. I feel nearly determined to push ofif to-morrow, and yet it would not do; I may be wrong, and to-morrow may be fairer to me in every way; but this " hope deferred" is a very fatiguing science to study. I could never make up my min
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