Note 533 — BOOK VI[427] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), a Scotsman by birth, emigrated at an early age to America. He was by turns a weaver, a schoolmaster, and a pedlar. He applied himself to the study of birds, and eventually published his American Ornithology in seven volumes, containing the finished illustrations referred to by Chateaubriand.—T.