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by the Canada Goose, on the breaking up of the ice in 

 spring, and again at the setting in of winter, the Brent 

 Goose is unknown both to the Indians and to the white 

 settlers ; nor are they known about the yet more north- 

 erly forts of the Hudson's Bay Company short of the 

 Bay itself, where they abound who regard the Canada 

 Goose as one of the principal, if not the chief article of 

 their subsistence. 



The breeding place of the Brent Goose is very far to 

 the north, though not so far as that of the Wild-Goose, 

 which is supposed, not without reason, to rear its young 

 and pass the brief days of summer of the Arctic Circle 

 in the regions of the Pole itself, while the Brent has been 

 found on its nests in Labrador, to the northward of Hud- 

 son's Bay and in Boothia Felix. Here, fearless of the 

 ambushed gun, and the murderous battery, it revels dur- 

 ing a few short months in those to it delightful solitudes, 

 occupied with the charms of love, and the cares of rear- 

 ing its young. It does not, however, tarry long in its 

 northern asylum, as it is usually looked for in the Long 

 Island waters, and at Barnegat, Egg Harbor, and other 

 shooting stations on the Jersey coast, early in October, 

 and has been seen so early as the 20th of September. Its 

 stay in these places is uncertain, depending very much on 

 the nature of the season, often remaining, if it be open 

 weather, during nearly the whole of the winter, while 

 on the contrary, if the bays are frozen early, it at once 

 towers aloft and takes its way southward. It seems, how- 



