Later Life
About 1818 he left London for Paris, where he made his headquarters until his death on the 10th of March 1826. He spent his later years impoverished . His remaining publications were the Recollections of Paris in the years 1802-5 (1806); a very useful General Collection of Voyages and Travels (1808-1814); a New Modern Atlas (1808-1819); and his Petralogy (1811).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Media related to Maps by John Pinkerton at Wikimedia Commons
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