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States for the purpose of visiting his subscribers and settUng 

 accounts with his agents. The route from New York, was up 

 the Hudson to Albany, to Lake Champlain, along which be 

 coasted as far as Burlington, Vermont, by September 23, 1812 ; 

 then overland through the rugged mountain region to the Con- 

 necticut and down the river to Haverhill, where he was arrested 

 on suspicion of being a spy from Canada, after he had ascended 

 one of the highest peaks of the White mountains for the sub- 

 lime view it afiforded him ; but was soon released with many 

 apologies for the mistake. Continuing down the river to Han- 

 over, New Hampshire, he took the shortest route to Boston, 

 Portsmouth and Portland. With his face toward home, he 

 wrote from Boston, October 13th, "In New England the rage 

 of war, the virulence of politics, and the persuit of commercial 

 speculations, engross every faculty," and complained of a vio- 

 lent palpitation of the heart. 



The seventh volume appearing late in April or early May, 

 1813, Wilson, accompanied by Ord, spent four weeks at Great 

 Egg Harbor, so named because of the great number of eggs to 

 be found there during the breeding season. This was the last of 

 six trips to the New Jersey coast in pursuit of the Water Birds. 

 On his return he had looked forward to spending the summer 

 with his friend Bartram, but the press of work incident to his 

 earnest desire to an early completion of the work, prevented 

 this ; and in a letter dated July 6th, he writes to Bartram : "I 

 am myself far from being in good health. Intense application 

 to study has hurt me much. My 8th volume is now in press 

 and will be published in November. One volume more will 

 complete the whole." Wilson's sole resources since he relin- 

 quished his superintendence of the Cyclopaedia, were his re- 

 ceipts from the publishers for the coloring of the plates of his 

 work ! He states in his preface of Vol. IV, September 12th, 

 1811, "the correct execution of the plates will be rendered 

 more secure, by the constant superintendence of the Author ; 

 and by the whole of the coloring being performed in his own 

 room, imder his immediate inspection. The great precision 

 requisite in the last process, and the difficulty of impressing on 



