CONTINUATION 



OF 



THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 



On the 26th of May, 1844, in the last page but 

 one of my Autobiography, continued in the second 

 volume of the " Essays on Natural History," I 

 bade farewell to the reader, and to that delightful 

 pursuit at the same time, so far as the public press 

 was concerned. The fact is, I saw, not without 

 some faint inward feelings 'of regret, that my once 

 Eastern sun, was inevitably approaching to its 

 Western repose ; that future adventures would, of 

 course, be scarce; and that mere common occur- 

 rences, incidental to retirement from a busy world, 

 would have little in them either to amuse or to 

 instruct the reader of them, whoever he might be. 



Under this impression I thought, how happy I 

 should be, in this sequestered valley, where nature 

 smiled, and all was gay around me. Here, the 

 pretty warblers from the South, when Spring had 

 called them back, would charm me with their 



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