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of the hospitable, warm-liearted, South Caroli- 

 nians ; so happy were those days, that Dr. Back- 

 man was want to sigh, and say : " Ah, old man, 

 this is too much happiness for this world — ^it 

 makes us forget ourselves." But he rested not ; 

 and we find him once again in London, where 

 he, with his eldest son, assorted the drawings, 

 made during two years absence, into numbers ; 

 and, making his final arrangements as to what 

 birds were still wanted from the works of pre- 

 vious authors, he returned to Edinburgh, his 

 favourite resort in Great Britain, where he pub- 

 lished the third volume of the OrTiif>>niocno.al 



