O CE the author awoke to a painful reflection that heknew no place velI, though his occupation had taken himto many, and that, after twenty-five years of describinglocalities and society, he would be identified with none."Vhere shall I begin to rove vithill confines ?" heasked, feeling the vacant spaces in his nature: the wantof all those birds, forest trees, household habits, weeds, instincts of the br oks, and tints and tones of the localspecies...