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Edward Harris was unable to accompany his friend, 

 and the four young men eventually chosen were Joseph 

 Coolidge, 12 William Ingalls, of Boston, Thomas Lin- 

 coln, of Dennisville, Maine, and George Cheyne Shat- 

 tuck, 13 the son of Dr. George C. Shattuck of Boston; 

 these, with John Woodhouse Audubon and the natural- 



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ist, made up the party. The schooner Ripley, a staunch 

 new vessel of 106 tons, was chartered at Eastport, and 

 the expedition was ready to start by the latter part of 

 May. During his stay at Eastport Audubon visited 

 Grand Manan Island, a favorite resort for sea birds in 

 the Bay of Fundy, and cruised about the coast in a 

 revenue cutter. On May 31, he wrote to Victor: ] 



12 



In 1897 Mr. Joseph Coolidge, who was then living in San Francisco, 

 was the sole survivor of this expedition; see Maria R. Audubon, Audubon 

 and his Journals (Bibl. No. 86), vol. i, p. 347. 



"Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck, like his father a philanthropist, and an 

 ardent patron of all good works, in 1855 planted a seed on the rocky soil of 

 New Hampshire which has since shown a marvelous vitality; to him 

 primarily, and to the revered schoolmasters, the Reverend Dr. Henry Augus- 

 tus Coit and the Reverend Dr. Joseph Howland Coit, the world owes that 

 great foundation, St. Paul's School. 



'Maria R. Audubon, op. cit., vol. i, p. 346. 



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