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IN SCANIA. 



together with several Ducks, &c. ; and had not missing, 

 instead of hitting, been the order of the day, the number 

 might have been increased by at least one-third. 



Near the town of Gothenburg there are also some 

 good bogs, where I have had fair shooting. One day, 

 and that a rather short one, I bagged, in addition to some 

 Ducks, &c., upwards of thirty couple of the Common and 

 the Solitary Snipe, for I then left the poor little Jack 

 altogether unmolested ; and on other occasions during 

 the same season my sport was nearly equally good. But 

 this was in the olden time, when Snipes were probably 

 more plentiful than at present. 



In South Wermland I have also met with tolerable 

 Snipe-bogs ; but being then in pursuit of other game, I 

 did not give them a fair trial. 



WIDTSKiiFr^E. 



In the province of Scania I have likewise seen some 

 capital Snipe-bogs. The best, 2:)erhaps, arc those near 

 tlie baronial mansion of Widtskofle, depicted above, where 

 I was hospitably entertained, during the past autumn, 

 by its owner, M. Stjernsviird ; but the Snipes Avere 

 then for the most part gone, so that I did little execution. 



