My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented ….

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes..

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border..

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I h….

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resol….

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned..

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the A….

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human ….

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the clim….

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the ….