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was twelve years since within fifty miles off New- York, sucli is 

 in the interior of the sonthern tier of counties of that State, and 

 such is in liuiidrcds and liuiidrcds of places in the West, tlie 

 autumn shoot iiii^ of .America. 



And tliat, mine Enulish readers, without a game-keeper or a 

 preserve in all the lengtli and breadth of the land ; and, I might 

 almost say without a game-law,* so limited is the sphere of 

 operation of these latter, so narrow and perverse their enact- 

 ments, and — ai)ove all — so little are they regarded. But this 

 alas ! will soon, if not amended, abolish altogether the Field 

 Sports of America. 



* At llie moment of correcting the press of this page, I learn tliat the game- 

 law, which I mentioned above, as luiving been prepared by myself and submit- 

 ted to the Sportsman's Club, of New- York, has been presented by petition 

 from the counties of Rockland and Orange, has passed the Legislature of the 

 State, and is nowZaio for those two gallant counties. There is no more summer 

 Cock-shooting, gentlemen, in Orange or Rockland — the first two counties of 

 America in which I ever pulled a trigger. Bravo, the river counties ! Who will 

 be the next to follow the glorious example? Long Island, Westchester, Put- 

 nam, Duchess — and last, not least — New-Jersey, the eyes of men are upon 

 you! 



