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decessors Now they once more change their direction the 

 column becoming an immense front, sweeping the heavei 

 one vast and infinitely 

 extended line. Sud- 

 denly a hawk makes 

 a sweep on a parti- 

 cular part of the col- 

 umn, when almost as 

 quick as lightning that 

 part shoots down- 

 wards out of the com- 

 mon track ; but soon 

 again rising, advances 

 at the same rate as 

 before. 



We will now hurry 

 on towards their 

 breeding place, a 

 forest on the banks 

 of the Green River 

 in Kentucky, fully 

 forty miles in length, 

 and more than three 

 in width. In the 

 neighbourhood are as- 

 sembled a large num- 

 ber of persons, with 



horses, Waggons, guns, " ^ ENCAMPME NT OF PIGEON-HUNTEKS. 



