[532] Thomas Say (1787-1834), author of an American Entomology (1824) and an American Conchiliology (1830).—B.
[533] 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.
[534] Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), author of several novels, of which Wieland was the most popular.—B.
[535] Caleb Williams, by William Godwin (1756-1836), father of Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley's second wife, appeared in 1794, one year before the publication of Wieland.—T.
[536] James Fenimore Cooper (1780-1851), probably the most popular of American novelists.—T.
[537] Washington Irving (1783-1859). He was American Minister in Madrid for a short period (1842).—T.
[538] Fitz-Greene Halleck (1795-1867), author of Marco Bozuaris. The curious will find a criticism of his work in Poe's Literati of New York.—T.
[539] George Hill (b. 1796), author of the Ruins of Athens, and a few shorter poems.—T.
[540] Ruins of Athens, II.—T.
[541] The Parthenon.—T.