interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

work appeared in 1804; vol. 4 was issued in 1805; and vol, 5 was published in 1807, the same year in which the atlas was issued. This atlas, which has been defaced, originally contained ten maps showing the territory of the United States in which Wash- ington and his little army were engaged during the