Mill Grove

Returned to America from France.

Here followed life at Mill Grove Farm, near Philadelphia.

1805 or 6.

Again in France for about two years.

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 expressions.

At about this time, too, though the year we do not know, his father concluded 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.