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CHAPTER XXIV 



FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA IN SEARCH OF NEW BIRDS 



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Settles for a time in Camden Paints in a fisherman's cottage by the 

 sea With the lumbermen in the Great Pine Woods Work done- 

 Visits his sons Joins his wife at St. Francisville Record of jour- 

 ney south Life at "Beechgrove" Mrs. Audubon retires from 

 teaching Their plans to return to England Meeting with Presi- 

 dent Jackson and Edward Everett 420 



CHAPTER XXV 



AUDUBON'S LETTERPRESS AND ITS RIVALS 



Settlement in London Starts on canvassing tour with his wife 

 Change of plans In Edinburgh Discovery of MacGillivray His 

 hand in the Ornithological Biography Rival editions of Wilson 

 and Bonaparte Brown's extraordinary Atlas Reception of the 

 Biography Joseph Bartholomew Kidd and the Ornithological Gal- 

 lery In London again ., . 437 



