The intimacy between these two great men, who had alike devoted the flower of their youth to the interests of civilization and the foundation of the new republic, was never broken.
Mr.Gallatin passed only one winter at New Geneva.

On his return from his last mission to England he settled permanently in New York, and in 1828 took a house at No.

113 Bleecker Street, then in the suburbs of the city.

He wrote to Badollet in March, 1829, that "it was an ill-contrived plan to think that the banks of the Monongahela, where he was perfectly satisfied to live and die in retirement, could be borne by the female part of his family, or by children brought up at Washington and Paris." The population of New York has always been migratory, and Mr.Gallatin was no exception to the rule.

In the ten years which followed his first location he changed his residence on four May days, finally settling at No.