330 AMERICAN GAME. 



The true and gnostic mode of shooting, however, is 

 from the points or islands, over which the ducks and 

 geese fly in going up or down the bay, according as the 

 wind may be, and on which blinds or screens are con- 

 structed, concealing a seat on which the sportsman 

 quietly and comfortably awaits the advent of the fowl, 

 the teams of which may be seen at a long distance, so 

 that their approach, and the doubt to whose stand they 

 will give the shot, renders the sport most exciting. 

 Retrievers of the same character with those described 

 above, are used in this night-shootin-g ; and the use of 

 two heavy fourteen or sixteen pounds single guns, carry- 

 ing 4 or 5 oz. of ]STo. 1 to B shot, as I have recommend- 

 ed in my Field Sports for fowl shooting in general, is 

 greatly preferred to that of one double gun, heavier in 

 fact, but as regards each barrel, lighter, and, therefore, 

 neither so safe nor effective as the two singles in succes- 

 sion, and by far less easily managed. 



The most celebrated of these stations is Carrol's 

 Island, long rented by a club of sporting gentlemen, and 

 famous for the astonishing sport it was wont to furnish, 

 year after year. The Narrows, also, between Spesutia 

 Island on the western shore, Taylor's Island at the mouth 

 of the Rumley, and Abbey Island at the mouth of the 

 Bush River, Legoe's Point on the last named stream, 

 and Robbins' and Ricketts' Points, near the Gunpowder, 

 are all favorite and famous stations. 



The spoil is greatly enhanced by the difficulty of the 



