250 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



Formerly ducks were very abundant on the 

 western shore between Port Deposit and Havre 

 de Grace, and great numbers are still killed 

 from blinds and batteries, from the bridge, down 

 to Stump's Point at the mouth of Furnace creek. 

 The digging of the tide-water canal, however, 

 drove the ducks off the flats and marshes of the 

 western shore. Below Havre de Grace, on the 

 western side of the swash, near Donahue's bat- 

 tery, is good canvass-back and red-head ground. 

 About half a mile from the battery, to the east- 

 ward, Mr. Charles Boyd of Havre de Grace, 

 killed one hundred and sixty-three canvass- 

 backs, on the tenth day of November last, and 

 we have been assured that in the spring of 

 eighteen hundred and fifty, the same famous 

 duck-shooter killed two hundred and seventy- 

 one canvass-back, and red-heads off the mouth 

 of North-East river, three or four miles from 

 the battery. On the same day on which Boyd 

 killed his canvass-backs, near Donahue's bat- 

 tery, Mr. John Holly, another expert duck-shot, 

 belonging to the same place, killed one hundred 

 and nineteen of the same species 011 Devil's 

 Island ; and it is said that several thousand 

 ducks were brought into the town that day, by 

 the different parties engaged in shooting on the 

 flats. 



