LIFE OF WILSON. 
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respectability in each town, who will receive and deliver the vo- 
lumes, without recompense, any further than allowing them to make 
the first selection. By this means the rapacity of some booksellers 
will be avoided. 
“ The weather has been extremely warm these ten days, the 
thermometer stood in the shade on Friday and Saturday last, at 78° 
and 79°. I have seen no frost since the 5th of February, The 
few gardens here are as green and luxuriant as ours are in sum- 
mer — full of flow^ering shrubbery, and surrounded with groves of 
orange trees, fifteen and twenty feet high, loaded with fruit. The 
streets are deep beds of heavy sand, without the accommodation 
of a foot pavement. I most sincerely hope that I may be able to 
return home by water ; if not, I shall trouble you with one letter 
more.’^ 
To Mr. WITT JAM BARTRAM. 
Savannah, March 5, 1809. 
“ Three months, my dear friend, are passed since I parted 
from you in Kingsess. I have been travelling ever since; and one 
half of my journey is yet to be performed — but that half is home- 
wards, and through old Neptune’s dominions, where I trust I shall 
not be long detained. This has been the most arduous, expensive, 
and fatiguing, expedition I ever undertook. I have, however, gain- 
ed my point in procuring two hundred and fifty subscribers, in all, 
for my Ornithology ; and a great mass of information respecting 
the birds that winter in the southern states, and some that never 
visit the middle states ; and this information I have derived person- 
ally, and can therefore the more certainly depend upon it. I have, 
also, found several new birds, of which I can find no account in 
Linneus. All these things we will talk over when w^e meet. 
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