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LIST OF PLATES, &c. 



ARRIVAL, from the Longparish hills, into the valley, for the last 

 hour's shooting on the 1st of September; with double-mounted 

 Markers, and other Assistants. (Taken on the spot by Mr. 



Childe.) FRONTISPIECE. 



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Portrait of the Author, from a painting by A. E. Chalon, Esq., 



R.A viii 



Sections of original Gun Breechings 35, 37, 38 



Copied Sketch of Mr. Wilkinson's Breeching 69 



Sections of other modern Detonating Breechings 74 



Check Collar, for Breaking Pointers or Setters ; and Iron Puzzle 



for ditto 246 



Hampshire Punt-paddle, and "set-pole"..... 311 



Hampshire Launching-punt j and newly rigged mudboard .... 312 



Mud-Launchers on the Oozes, off Lymington, shoving their 



Punts up to Wigeon 320 



Poole Canoe 321 



Ditto, foreshortened ; Setting-pole; and Poole Mudboards 322 



Approaching Wildfowl, with Canoe and Stanchion-gun, pre- 

 parative to the flowing tide 331 



Explanatory Wood-cuts for the Spring Swivel from 347 to 351 



Ditto, for making Cartridges 355,357, 358 



Punt and Gear for a 2001b. Gun. With " Truck;" Tra- 

 velling Carriage j and all other Appendages complete. (By 

 Messrs. Cornelius Varley and Adlard) . 371 



