CHAPTER VI. 
AUDUBON AND BOONE. 
I rurn from Audubon and his triumphs amid courtly scenes 
of the Old World, surrounded by the princely and the learned, 
to the Hunter-Naturalist at his labors in the wilderness of the 
New—the associate of the rugged Boone, and many another 
skin-dressed peer. 
We may gather from his generous exhortation to younger 
naturalists to take the field, interesting features of what may 
be supposed to have been his own method of conducting his 
investigations when abroad with nature. Something of the 
sort of training by which his remarkable character was formed, 
and the modes and circumstances under which his works grew. 
After saying that the list of new species had been nearly 
doubled sine the time of Alexander Wilson’s work, and that 
he felt confident very many species remain to be added by 
future observers, who shall travel the vast wastes extending 
northward and westward from the Canadas, and along the 
western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, from Nootka to Cali- 
fornia; indeed, that he looks upon the whole range of those 
magnificent mountains as being yet unexplored—he addresses 
the young enthusiast :— 
Therefore, I would strongly advise you to make up your 
mird, shoulder your gun, muster all your spirits, and start in 
search of the interesting unknown, of which I greatly regret 
I can no more go in pursuit—not for want of will, but of 
the vigor and elasticity necessary for so arduous an enter- 
prise. Should you agree to undertake the task, and prove 
fortunate enough to return full of knowledge, laden with 
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