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a trifling impediment to your enjoying the whole 

 range of country. (Although the powder is so 

 execrably bad, yet the French shot is well manu- 

 factured, and of good quality.) 



The only objection, however, after the ten or 

 twelve hours' sail, which this would about be from 

 Lymington or Poole, is, that the isolated situation of 

 the country, and the misery of the inhabitants, pre- 

 clude your having any farther amusement than the 

 constant pursuit of sport. 



FRENCH HUT-SHOOTING, 



CALLED 



LA CHASSE A LA HUTTE. 



As the French hut-shooting is the only means by 

 which a very bad shot, with a very bad gun, may 

 kill ducks while as dry and as warm as if by his fire- 

 side, I made a point, on a subsequent excursion to 

 France, of going up to Peronne*, which may be 

 styled the university for chasseurs on this system, in 

 order to make myself master of it, and insert it in 

 the third edition, under an idea that its great facility, 



* The hut system is also tolerably understood near Calais. 

 Monsieur Huret I found to be " le plus fort huitier" there; and, 

 if I remember correctly, it was him that I met one morning with 

 forty-three wildfowl, that he was just bringing home, with his 

 basket of call-birds, after one night's sport. 



