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rican Colonies, in which it is probable that a large English gar- 

 rison will henceforward always be maintained, would, I am cer- 

 tai.i, cause information on American Sporting, which has of late 

 years been unfairly undervalued, to be received with eagerness. 



A little enterprise and spirit on the part of editors, would not 

 fail t ) be duly remunerated by increased patronage ; and I do 

 not despair of seeing the names of some American correspon- 

 dents attached to the articles in the Sporting Magazine, now 

 that it has passed into the hands of " Craven." 



That gentleman is, I know, well acquainted with the works 

 of American Sporting writers, since he has done me the honor 

 to insert in his " Sporting Recreations," some remarks concern- 

 ing the difference of English and American game, published by 

 me in the American Turf Register, though credited not to 7ne, 

 but to a letter from an Amei'ican sportsman. 



This, by the way, is of late becoming a common practice in 

 our good England. Mr. Carleton, in his Sporting Sketch Book 

 for 1842, has published one article by the late Wm. Hawes — 

 " J. Cypress, Jr." — describing a scene at " the Fii'e Islands," 

 which lie at the eastern, or rather south-east end of Long Island, 

 off the coast of New-York, the great merit of which consists in 

 its accurate allusions to topography, and its graphic pictures of 

 Long Island Bay-men. This, Mr. Carleton, for reasons best 

 known to himself, has attributed to a " Gentleman of Kentucky," 

 thereby utterly destroying the whole pith and point of the arti- 

 cle, and depriving it of all " vraissemblance." An unfortunate 

 little tale of my own, entitled " The Last Bear," the scene of 

 which is laid in one of the river counties of New-York, and 

 which professes in itself to be written, as it was, by an English- 

 man, is quoted, again, as "A Scrap from the Sketch Book of a 

 Rhode Islander," — again making nonsense of whatever small 

 degree of sense the article may have originally possessed. 



Heaven knows ! I am very willing that my countrymen should 

 have the benefit of any little Sporting information I may have 

 collected during a l'->ng residence abroad ; and have no earthly 

 objection that English gentlemen of letters, in compiling works 



