Note 6 — Chapter XXVI · EXPLORATIONS IN FLORIDA AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
Reading edition
Letter (No. 1) from Audubon to the editor of the Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science (Bibl. No. 34), published in vol. i, p. 358 (1832); dated "St. Augustine, East Florida, Dec. 7, 1831." These letters, which were hurriedly written in the field, appeared in a short-lived and forgotten publication; they are here given in part on account of the general interest of the narrative.