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is only one remove from the Indian hunting. 

 I never saw, that 1 know of, any man that had 

 seen a pack of hounds in America, except those 

 kept by old JOHN BROWN, in Bucks County, 

 Pennsylvania, who was the only hunting Qua 

 ker that I ever heard of, and who was grand 

 father of the famous General Brown. Tn short, 

 there is none of what we call hunting ; or, so 

 little, that no man can expect to meet with it. 



378. No coursing. I never saw a greyhound 

 here. Indeed, there are no hares that have the 

 same manners that ours have, or any thing like 

 their fleetness. The woods, too, or some sort 

 of cover, except in the singular instance of the 

 plains in this Island, are too near at hand. 



379. But, of shooting the variety is endless. 

 Pheasants, partridges, wood -cocks, snipes, 

 grouse, wild-ducks of many sorts, teal, plover, 

 rabbits. 



380. There is a disagreement between the 

 North and the South as to the naming of the 

 two former. North of New Jersey the phea 

 sants are called partridges, and the partridges 

 are called quails. To the South of New Jersey, 

 they are called by what I think are their proper 

 names, taking the English names of those birds 

 to be proper. For, pheasants do not remain in 

 coveys ; but, mix, like common fowls. The in 

 tercourse between the males and females is 



