AUDUBON JOURNAL 



River and the spot on which the Plantation stands 

 never overflows, these are remarkable spots — 



We are Landed immediately at the foot of Old T^or^ 

 Pickering. We Walked up to it through a very narrow 

 crooked path, and found in a very decayed situation; 

 the Position a Beautifull one the Land Rich about it— 

 and were told that the Spaniards own it it was an 

 agreable spot to Live at — about 2 Miles above this, 

 the Mouth of Wolf river came in from the East, and 

 is the Landing place of a Town Called Memphis = have 

 runned 24 miles — Saw some Towe Buntings and Many 

 Sparrows — [The following paragraph is written across 

 page] 



At New Orleans on the 25*^ of February same year 

 saw an a/c in a New York Paper saying that the 

 Weather had been Intensely severe that the Mercury 

 had been so Low as 24 Degrees below o = that the 

 Port of New York was completely closed by Ice and 

 that all the Streams in that state & Pennsylvania 

 where closed — Much pleased to see that particularly 

 the Migrations of a swift Moving Bird such as the 

 Merganser can so truly be considered as the herald of 

 Weather in its Movements when going Northward & 

 Southwardly 



at the Watter Edge (then about midle Stage) there is 

 a Bed of Coals running Orisontally about 2 feet Deep 

 above the surface — this and the Eligeability of the 

 Situation May become Valuable — 



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