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without interest, the weather was suffocating, and the 

 roads dirty and very rough ; we made but three miles an 

 hour for the whole journey, walking up the hills, and gal- 

 loping down them to Augusta, and paying a fare of thir- 

 teen dollars and fifty cents each, and thence by rail to 

 Charleston for six dollars and seventy-five cents each, 

 distance one hundred and thirty-six miles, and making 

 eight and a half days from New Orleans." 



After remaining a short time in Charleston, Audubon 

 returned to New York, and in the latter part of the sum- 

 mer sailed for Liverpool. After landing there and greet- 

 ing his friends, he went to London, taking the new 

 drawings he had made to Mr. Havell, and then, after 

 spending a few days with his family, departed for Edin- 

 burgh. There he went diligently to work in preparing 

 the fourth volume of his " Ornithological Biography " for 

 the press. The work held him until the Fall of 1838, and 

 was published in November of that year. His family 

 now joined him in Edinburgh, and the winter was devo- 

 ted to finishing the drawings for the completion of his 

 great volume on the "Birds of America," and also to pre- 

 paring his fifth volume of the " Ornithological Biography," 

 which was published in Edinburgh in May, 1839. 



In the Fall of 1839 he returned to America with his 

 family, and settled in New York city, there to spend the 

 remainder of his days. But he did not intend to be idle, 

 but immediately began preparing his last great ornitho- 

 logical work, which is a copy of his original English pub- 

 lication, with the figures reduced and lithographed, in 

 seven octavo volumes. The first volume was published 

 within a little more than a year after his return, two more 

 volumes appeared in 1842, another in 1843, while he was 

 absent on his expedition to the Yellow-stone River, and 

 the last one after his return. 



Besides all this labor, he devoted occasional spare 



