. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. ifij h â !jI. cviii LIFE OF WILSON. Harbor.* There t'^ey remained for nearly four weeks, constantly occupied in collecting materials for the eighth volume, which Wilson had resolved should in no respects full nhort of the preceding; but which should, if possible, enhance his reputition, by the value of its deUiils, and the beauty of its cnihullishnients. Immediately on his return to Philadelphia, he engaged anew in his arduou
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. ifij h â !jI. cviii LIFE OF WILSON. Harbor.* There t'^ey remained for nearly four weeks, constantly occupied in collecting materials for the eighth volume, which Wilson had resolved should in no respects full nhort of the preceding; but which should, if possible, enhance his reputition, by the value of its deUiils, and the beauty of its cnihullishnients. Immediately on his return to Philadelphia, he engaged anew in his arduous avocation; and by the month of August he had succeeded in completing the letter-press of the eighth volume, though the whole of the plates were not Hut unfortunaijly his great anxiety to conclude the work, condemned him to an excess of toil, which, inflexible as was his mind, his bodily frame was unable to bear. He was likewise, by this flood of business, prevented from residing in the country, where hours of mental lahsitude might have been beguiled by a rural walk, or the rough but invigorating exercise of the gun. At length he was attacked by a disei'-^e, which, perhaps, at another period of his life might not have been attended with fatal eflecls, but which now, in his debilitated st .te of body, and harassed niind, proved a mighty foe, whose assaults all the combined efl'ort>i of friendship, science and skill, could not repel. The dysentcr,, after a sickness of ten days, closed the mortal career of Alexan- der Wilson, on the twenty-third of August, 1813. It may not be going too fur to maintain, that in no age or nation has there ever arisen one more eminently qualitied for a naturalist than the subject of these memoirs. He was not only an enfhusiistic admirer of the works of creation, but he was consistent in rcsearcli; and pt'rniittod no dangers or fatigues to abate his ardor, or relax his exertions. He iiiunMl himself to hardships by frc(jucnt and labori
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