COMPLETION OF THE ORNITHOLOGY III 



which he followed until he reached Burlington, 

 Vermont; all the while he was adding copiously 

 to his collection of birds. The country about the 

 Connecticut River he tramped, gun in hand, 

 visited again Dartmouth College and Boston, 

 and passed through Portsmouth and Portland. At 

 Haverhill his unusual habits of tramping the 

 forests alone caused him to be arrested and im- 

 prisoned as a Canadian spy, but on explanation 

 he was soon released. His second visit to New 

 England was rich in results, and greatly encour- 

 aged he was soon at work again in Philadelphia. 

 Here all was not going well, for in spite of the 

 generous praise and thanks that he gave to all his 

 co-workers, in his prefaces, especially the engrav- 

 ers, Lawson, Murray, and Warnicke, some of 

 them occasioned him no little trouble. Murray, 

 he could no longer depend on, and all of his "col- 

 ourists" left him, so that he had to do a great deal 

 of extra work, and at this period his health was 

 beginning to fail. At the same time, however, 

 fortune was not altogether frowning on him. 

 His books were beginning to bring him some 

 fame, and he was elected a member of the Colum- 

 bia Society of Fine Arts and of the Philosophical 

 Society of Philadelphia. 



By the early part of July the eighth volume of 

 the "Ornithology" was ready for the press, and 

 Wilson was eagerly planning the last one, and 

 outlining a work on American quadrupeds similar 

 to the ''Ornithology." But already the strain of 

 his work was telling upon him, and his constitu- 

 tion began to weaken under it, yet like a true war- 



