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not a living creature on the green earth and nnder tLe snn, 

 and therefore it has been that only such heathfal and hardy 

 treatment as our naturalists have given to ISatural Hiitjrv. 

 has found favor among us. Onr glorious Audubon, who is 

 just now dead, lived and wrote like one of the people, and 

 therefore we love and venerate him passed away. The people 

 everywhere will have the familiar objects and subjects of 

 their every-day life treated in a familiar way, and all the 

 stilted terminology of an over-done wisdom is. and must con- 

 tinue to be, gibberish to them. One such fanciful and elo'-juent 

 romancer as Buffon, will continue through all time more dear '.o 

 the popular heart iu the Old World, than fifty rude stcilid com- 

 pilers as Gesner or Pennant, or even than the venerate! 

 Linnseus himself; and Goldsmith, tc>o. has made "A Fairy 

 Tale" as Sam Johnson called it,) cf ZSatttral History, that 

 must live as a substantial reality in the memories of maaJdnd 

 more enduring than the heavy monuments of learning. 



It is therefore entirely from tlie stand-point of the Hunter 

 Naturalist. — the indigenons growth of our Xew World, — ^that I 

 propose to regard the Romance of Sporting, and the relatioi^s 

 of Bird, Beast and Htmter. 



