...st were. Audubon, the ornithologist, who had a way of interspersing between his bird sketches certain intermediate chapters called , usually personal narratives in the woods, beginning in 1831--and Timothy Flint , who wrote (1826), and also who wrote from Cincinnati to the London Athenaeum and had his books translated into French. These books, with those of Peter Parley (sometimes written by Hawthorne), ga...