AUDUBON JOURNAL 



a Hurry as I am Now doing, a Letter, that M"- Pren- 

 tice to My utmost astonishment pronounced all 

 suficient — he spoke much about the Journey and antici- 

 pated he said the pleasure of reading My Journal on 

 My return — feehng a great Weight off My Shoulders I 

 returned to My Room, took Gun Ammunition & Joseph 

 & to the Woods Went in Search of New Species — 



My Life has been strewed with Many thorns but 

 could I see Myself & the fruits of my Labour safe, 

 with My Beloved familly all Well on a return from 

 Such an expedition, how gratefull Would I feel to 

 My Country and [Thank] full of the Greatness of 

 My Author — 



In Market this Morning I saw Three of What 

 Willson Calls Bartrams^s Snipes, they Where very fat — 

 are called here Papacots — Saw a Beautifull White Crane 

 but without legs — Vast Many Green Wing'^ & blue 

 winged Teals — hundreds of Snipes, pures, Solitary 

 Snipes — Green back*^ Swallows — but robbins have 

 disapeared — 



The Migration of Birds does Not go a pace with 

 the Vegetable Kingdom in this Part of America 

 When, The Trees are as much in Leaves in Pen- 

 sylvania, or Ohio, or Kentucky or even the upper 

 Part of Tennessee [Birds] {and this is about the Midle of 

 May) Birds back to the 25 of April have reach<^ these 

 Parts and are preparing to answer the Calls of Nature — 



to My Astonishment, the Many Species of Warblers, 



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