Note 12 — Chapter II
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John Wilson, b. 1785; d. 1854; better known as Christopher North, his pseudonym in Blackwood. The Isle of Palms, 1811; The City of the Plague, 1816; Recreations of Christopher North, 1842. In 1851 a civil-list pension of £300 was conferred upon him. His younger brother James Wilson was a well-known naturalist, and author of The Rod and the Gun.