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~ ON HUNTIN ‘ ae G, AND CATCHING GAME. 
ts finny | kind are so numerous and differ so much in size, 
shape, appearance, and mode of living, that it would require 
a large volume to give their minute. > particulars ; therefore I 
shall be under the necessity of making but a £48 brief re- 
‘marks. 
- In the first place, it is evident that all kinds of big. fshes 
that have wide, open mouths, live more or less on the sma 
fish. The aborigines in this wilderness—North America— 
_ before it was discovered by the celebrated Christopher Colum- 
bus, found various ways to trap and take what of the finny 
kind they wished. They would sometimes snare them by a 
slip-noose of elm and other kinds of bark, or shoot them with 
_ their stone arrows as they did the elk or reindeer, and some- 
mes they would spear them with sharp sticks, and on ra: 
whip them to death with poles, They were so plenty that 
they could (in that age of the world) take what they wanted, 
for they never caught more than to supply their wants. 
And so with regard to hunting. They trapped by snares, 
dead-falls, and cutting long holes in hollow trees, and placing 
bait in the hole where foxes, wolves and bears could get their 
head i in so high,that when they jumped for the bait and fall- 
_ ing back, they would hang fast by their head in the narrow 
hole below. In taking wolves, they would build low pole 
yards with narrow tops, and place a deer or some fresh meat 
in the yard, and the ravenous — would run up on the 
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