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FouKTii Since his time, I fear that the white-headed Eagles 



Journey. 



— : have been much thimied. I was perpetually lookmg out 



White- 

 headed, them, but saw very few. One or two came now and 



Eagles. ' 



then, and soared in lofty flight over the falls of Niagara. 

 The Americans are proud of this bird in effigy, and their 

 hearts rejoice when its banner is unfurled. Could they 

 not then be persuaded to protect the white-headed Eagle, 

 and allow it to glide in safety over its own native forests ? 

 Were I an American, I should think I had committed a 

 kind of sacrilege in killing the white-headed Eagle. The 

 Ibis was held sacred by the Egyptians ; the Hollanders 

 protect the stork ; the vulture sits unmolested on the 

 top of the houses in the city of Angustura ; and Robin- 

 red-breast, for his charity, is cherished by the English : — 



" No burial, tliese pretty babes 

 Of any man receives, 

 Till Robin-rcd-breast painfully. 

 Did cover tbem with leaves."* 



Poor Wilson was smote by the hand of death, before he 

 had finished his work. Prince Charles Buonaparte, 

 nephew to the late emperor Napoleon, aided by some of 

 the most scientific gentlemen of Pennsylvania, is con- 

 tinuing this valuable and interesting publication. 

 Nevi^York, New York, with great propriety, may be called the 

 commercial capital of the new world : — 



" Ur.bs augusta potens, nulli cessura." 



* The fault against grammar is lost in the beauty of the idea. 



