228 AMERICAN GAME. 



mountain pastures. With the exception of a few on 

 Long Island, in the northern counties, and about the still 

 wild banks of the Delaware, in New York, they are 

 already extinct. In New Jersey, with a small wretched 

 remnant of the once as abundant heath-hen, prairie-fowl, 

 or pinnated grouse, a few straggling deer may still be 

 found in that remote and little traversed region called 

 from its prevailing growth, the pines, lying along the 

 Atlantic coast. Elsewhere they exist not. To the west- 

 ward of Pennsylvania, and through the South, even so 

 far as Texas and New Mexico, through the West to the 

 Rocky Mountains, and northward through both the 

 Canadas, they are still abundant, and will continue so, it 

 may be expected, for some years to come in the 

 Canadas and the Southern States especially, where the 

 laws for their preservation are rigidly enforced, and 

 where the greater number of educated men and gentry 

 settled throughout the rural districts, have produced 

 some effect on the mind of the masses as regards the 

 wholesale and useless extinction of game out of season. 



The modes of pursuing and taking this fine animal, 

 whether for pleasure or profit, are almost innumerable, 

 but of these almost all partake of the poaching or pot- 

 hunting system too much to obtain from me more than a 

 mere passing notice. 



The first and most generally practiced of these is what 

 is variously called driving, or stand-hunting, in which 

 the shooters are placed on the circuit of a certain tract 



