Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. Second series: with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. / by Charles Waterton.

  • Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. Second series: with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. / by Charles Waterton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WRITER OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS, BY HIMSELF. _ (Continued from Vol. I. p. xxxiii.) “ Barbiton hic paries habebit:” Tuis beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays. When I Jaid down the pen on the 30th of December, 1837, I thought that I should never take it up again. But it has only slumbered for a few short years; and the reader will see in the preface to this second little volume, what “ has called it from the bed of rest.” My adven- turous bark is once more rash enough to try its fortune on the high sea of public opinion, where many a stouter vessel, better rigged and better manned, has met an awful and untimely fate.