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as the bison of the prairies, and the prowling 
wolves (Coyotes), well-fed, were as tame as dogs, 
and every night yelled famitiiely through the 
village. In this region the olive and the vine 
without care to the hedgerow of the garden 
After a perilous passage around Cape Horn, the 
Props extremity of South America, amidst moun- 
tains of ice which opposed our progress in unusual 
scenes of nature with which I had been so long 
accustomed. I rambled again thro’ the shade of 
the Atlantic forests, or culled some rare produc- 
tion of flora in their native wilds.’ 
He published several papers on the shells and 
plants of the regions through which he had trav- 
elled. From 1822 to 1834 he was professor of 
Natural History in Harvard College. Among his 
works are the valuable genera of North American 
Plants, in 2 vols.,1818; a manual of the Ornithol- 
ogy of the United States and Canada, 1832-1834, 
and the North American Sylva, in 3 vols., 1842- 
1849, being a continuation of Michaux’s great work 
on the Forest Trees of North America. 
‘But’ as he says, “ the oft-told tale approaches 
to its close, and I must now bid a long adieu to 
the new world, its sylvan scenes, its mountainous 
wilds, its plains, and henceforth, in the evening 
of my career, I return almost an exile to the land 
of my nativity.’ He returned to England and 
