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vania shore. On the New Jersey side, Kaighn's 

 Point meadows, and those upon the Newt-own 

 Creek, were accounted good snipe grounds. Red- 

 field's flat, at the mouth of Timber Creek, and 

 low lands of Josiah Ward, lying several miles 

 higher up the stream, were specially famous. 



On Eagle Point meadows snipe have been seen 

 in immense flights, and the marshes of Wood- 

 bury and Mantua creeks were also celebrated. 

 Wilson's grounds, situated on the latter stream, 

 and consisting of low tussocky pasturage, trod- 

 den up by cattle and kept sufficiently moist by 

 the spring rains, were much visited by sports- 

 men. 



Clemmell and Raccoon creeks, and Raccoon 

 island, have also been in great esteem in their 

 day. On the range of meadows from Bridge- 

 port, New Jersey, down to Oldman's Creek, and 

 on all the grounds between Pennsgrove and Sa- 

 lem Creek, birds are still to be found from the 

 twentieth of March until the last of April. We 

 once killed twenty brace of very fine snipe at 

 Pennsgrove as late as the fourth of May, and in 

 March last bagged eighty-eight birds in two 

 days' shooting in the same vicinity. We repeat, 

 however, that these, as well as the most noted 

 grounds on the opposite shore, have been so 



