NOTICE. 
N presenting to the English reader, through the 
naedium of a popular periodical, the first European 
edition of a work of which America has just cause 
to be proud, the publishers have a few words of 
explanation to offer regarding the improvements 
they have adopted. 
It will be seen, from the Memoir of Wilson in 
te present volume, that his portion of the American 
'niithology consists of nine volumes quarto, the 
escriptive part of the concluding volume having 
been drawn up by Mr George Ord, of Philadelphia, 
n 1825, Mr Ord was again employed to prepare 
•tetv editions of the seventh, eighth, and ninth 
'i? '**'^®*’ made considerable additions : in 1828, 
^ ' ee supplementary volumes, by Charles Lucian 
O'laparte,* appeared. 
The present edition will comprise not merely 
te whole of Wilson’s work, including the improve- 
Musignano, son of Lucien Bonaparte, the brother of 
