LIFE OF WILSON. 
Ixix 
“ I had a rough journey home through the Genessee country, 
which was covered with snow to the depth of fifteen inches, 
and continued so all the way to Albany. If you know of any 
gentlemen in your neighbourhood acquainted with botany, be 
so good as introduce Mr. Michaux to them. 
TO MR. WM. DUNCAN. 
Philadelphia, Jipril 8, 1807. 
“ Enclosed is a proof-sheet of our prospectus; as soon as the 
impressions are thrown off on fine paper, I will transmit one 
for Mr. L. This afternoon Mr. Lawson is to have one of the 
plates completely finished; and I am going to set the copper- 
plate printer at work to print each bird in its natural colours, 
which will be a great advantage in colouring, as the black ink 
will not then stain the fine tints. We mean to bind in the pro- 
spectus 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 newspapers; and every thing done 
to promote the undertaking. 
“ I hope you have made a beginning, and have already a 
collection of heads, bills and claws, delineated. If this work 
should go on, it will be a five years affair; and may open the 
way to something more extensive; for which reason I am anx- 
ious 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 i^elaware, 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 getting completely wet, and in a 
graved by Gteorge Cooke of London, and illustrate his poem of the “ Forest- 
ers,” which was published in the Port Folio. These well-engiaved views, 
wliich are two in number, convey a good idea of tlie famous Cataract; the 
“Great Pitch,” in particular, is admirably represented. 
