LIFE OF WILSON. 
the fine tints. We mean to bind in the Prospectus at the end of 
the next half volume, for which purpose twenty-five hundred copies 
are to be thrown off ; and an agent will be appointed in every town 
in the Union. The Prospectus will also be printed in all the news- 
papers ; and every thing done to promote the undertaking. 
“ I hope you have made a beginning, and have already a col- 
lection of heads, bill and claws, delineated. If this work should «:o 
on, it will be a five years affair ; and may open the way to some- 
thing more extensive ; for which reason I am anxious to have you 
with me to share the harvest. 
“ I started this morning, by peep of day, with my gun, for the 
purpose of shooting a Nuthatch. After jumping a hundred fences, 
and getting over the ancles in mud, (for I had put on my shoes for 
lightness,) I found myself almost at the junction of the Schuylkill 
and Delaware, without success, there being hardly half an acre of 
woodland in the whole neck ; and the Nuthatch generally frequents 
large-timbered woods. I returned home at eight o’clock, after get- 
ting completely wet, and in a profuse perspiration, which, contrary 
to the maxims of the doctors, has done me a great deal of good; 
and I intend to repeat the dose ; except that I shall leave out the 
ingredient of the wet feet, if otherwise convenient. Were I to pre- 
scribe such a remedy to Lawson, he would be ready to think me 
mad. Moderate, nay even pretty severe exercise, is the best medi- 
cine in the world for sedentary people, and ought not to be ne- 
glected on any account.” 
To Mr. WM. BARTRAM. 
Philadelphia, April 29, 1807. 
“ My dear sir, 
“ The receipt of yours of the 11th inst. in which 
you approve of my intended publication of American Ornithology, 
