[232] The copy of Audubon's works here alluded to, was the same, we opine,
as that generously presented by the illustrious savant to Mr. Martyn,
chronometer-maker, St Peter street, - an ardent ornithologist, whose roof
sheltered the great naturalist, in Quebec in 1842.
Audubon made several excursions round Quebec to study our birds, was the
honoured guest of the late Henry Atkinson, at Spencer Wood, and visited
the collection of Canadian birds of Hon. William Sheppard, at Woodfield.
[233] His last work in the cause of natural history is the publication of
his "Tableau Synoptique des Oiseaux du Canada," got the use of schools,
which must have entailed no small amount of labour, a sequel to "Les
Oiseaux du Canada," 2 vols., 1860.
[234] These stones and inscriptions were donated to the author of "Quebec
Past and Present" - by the city authorities on taking down the City Gates.
[235] Pierre Herman Dosquet, born at Lille in Flanders in 1691, arrived in
Canada in 1721, was shortly afterwards sent a missionary to the Lake of
Two Mountains, was made a bishop in 1725, purchased Samos from Nicholas de
la Nouiller, in 1731, where he built a country house in 1732. Sold it some
years afterwards to the Quebec Seminary, visited France in 1733 and
resigned his see and left the country in 1739 and died in Paris in 1777.
