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arrived at Mayor's at midnight, having written him to expect me.
The next day I visited the market, and in five days I had filled a great barrel with different kinds of fish and fresh-water turtles, beside making several skeletons and various dissections of mollusks.
Wishing to employ my time as usefully as possible, I postponed my visits to the savans of the city, and the delivery of my letters, till I was on the eve of departure, that I might avoid all invitations.
I had especial pleasure in making the acquaintance of the two Le Contes, father and son, who own the finest collection of insects in the United States.
I can easily make some thousand exchanges with them when I receive those that M. Coulon has put aside for me, with a view to exchange. . . . Every morning Auguste Mayor went with me to the market before going to his office and helped me to carry my basket when it was too heavy.
One day I brought back no less than twenty-four turtles, taken in one draught of the net. I made four skeletons, and dissected several others.
Under such conditions the day ought to have thirty-six working hours.
Were I an artist, instead of describing my voyage from New York to Albany, I would
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