Excerpt from Wanderings in South America Content is wealth, the riches of the mind, And happy he who can that treasure find. Gilbert Whit-e and Charles Waterton are pre-eminent among English naturalists for their complete devotion to the study; both excelled as observers, and the writings of both combine the interest of exact outdoor observation with the charm of good literature. Water ton was born on June 3rd, 1782, at Walton Hall, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, a place which had for several centuries been the seat of his family. His father, Thomas W'aterton, was a squire, fond of fox hunting, but with other tastes, well read in literature, and delighting in the observation of the ways of birds and beasts. His grandfather. Whose grave is beneath the most northern of a row of old elm trees in the park, was imprisoned in York on account of his known at tachment to the cause of the Young Pretender. As he meant to join the rebel forces, the imprisonment prob ably saved his own life and prevented the ruin of the family. In his grandson's old age, when another white haired Yorkshire squire was dining at Walton Hall, I remember that Waterton and he reminded one another that their grandfathers had planned to march together to Prince Charley, and that they themselves, so differ ently are the rights of kings regarded at different ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.