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 entleman's intention to remain in America for 

 fteen or eighteen months, for the purpose of 

 making farther researches in natural science, 

 among the mighty transatlantic forests. 



" I have now before me a letter from 

 Audubon to my friend Mr Joseph B. Kidd, 

 member of the Scottish Academy of Painting, 

 dated New York, 7th September, 1831, when 

 he was in good health and spirits. The fol- 

 lowing excerpt from which cannot fail to be 

 2 acceptable to your readers, as coming from a 

 ] man who has so successfully devoted his life to 



ithe advancement of so interesting a branch of 

 natural science. He says, ' We landed on the 

 t 3d, after a remarkably fine passage of thirty- 

 f three days. In two days more I proceed to the 

 • woods, and away from white men's tracks and 

 manners. I hope you are going on well with 

 > your work.' 



" Then follows a string of remembrances to 

 his personal friends in Edinburgh, and he adds, 

 * I have a new subscriber here. The papers 

 and scientific journals (we have not many) are 

 singing the praise of my work, and, God willing, 

 I may yet come out at the broad end of the 

 horn ; at all events, I will either break it^ or 

 ; make a spoon ! I shot sixteen birds on the 

 : passage, which I got through the kind attention 

 of our commander. I killed fifty more, when 



