346 LIFE OF AUDUBON. 



CHAPTER LVl. 



In England aoain — Liteeaet Laboubs — Back to America. 



After remaining a short time in Charleston, , Audubon re- 

 turned to New York, and in the latter part of the summer sailed 

 for Liverpool, After landing there and greeting his friends, 

 he went to London, taking the new drawings he had made 

 to Mr. Harrill, and then, after spending a few days with his 

 family, departed for Edinburgh. There he went diligently to 

 work in preparing the fourth volume of his "Ornithological 

 Biography " for the press. This work held him until the fall 

 of 1838, and was published in November of that year. His 

 family now joined him in Edinburgh, and the winter was devoted 

 to finishing the drawings for the completion of his great volume 

 on the " Birds of America," and also to preparing his fifth volume 

 of the " Ornithological Biography," which was published in 

 Edinburgh in May 1839. 



In the fall of 1833 he returned to America with his family, 

 and settled in New York city, there to spend the remainder of 

 his days. But he did not intend to be idle, but immediately 

 began preparing his last great ornithological work, which is a 

 copy of his original English publication, with the figures reduced 

 and lithographed, in seven octavo volumes. The first volume 

 was published within a little more than a year after his return, 

 two more volumes appeared in 1842, another in 1843, while 

 he was absent on his expedition to the Yellow-stone Eiver, and 

 the last one after his return. 



