ALEXANDER WILSON. Xxix 
i*n Trel-!nrt°'' Thence he sailed to Belfast 
hoard an A embarked as a deck-passenger, on 
of Dolawar bound to Newcastle, in the State 
no^sDP^^n'^'^'! '" 0" 14th of July, 1794, with 
(liipfm ^ ^ view, without a single letter of intro- 
But n"' ® shillings in his ])ockct. 
him.piT-^ >“ bis transport at finding 
Imnaf tbe land of freedom. 
1 patrent to set his foot on the soil of the New World, 
e landed at Newcastle, and, with his fowling-piece in his 
ahoin h"’?"'? ' Thiladelphia, distant 
about t nrty three nules, highly delighted with the aspect 
of the country, and the plumage of the birds, to which 
that h r f ' unworthy of remark, 
at his hrst act m America was shooting a bird of the 
red-headed woodpecker species, as if thus already he^in- 
lung his career as /he American Ornithologist. ° 
On arriving at Philadelphia, he made himself known 
wrT “batriated countryman, a co|)perplatc printer, and 
tion f of occupa- 
thc t 1 c’ ““"■‘-’'’O''’ be soon relimpiishcd, and resumed 
e trade of weaving, first at Pennypack, then in Virginia, 
resort^rV" In the autumn of 1795, he 
Bed]. ^ ^ short time to his former occupation of 
ar, and traversed a considerable part of the State of 
lond^ meeting with greater success than in Scot- 
fo" ' , Ibis excursion, he kept a diary, as he had 
Scotland, written with great care, and 
oun mg with acute observations on the manners of the 
sketch’ .“f Ibe principal natural productions, and 
^^ nes of the indigenous quadrupeds and birds. 
'vithTrT''^ ‘be difficulties 
letter/ ‘o struggle upon his arrival, his 
0 IS friends are full of encomiums upon every 
