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Fowling too is pradiifed, on this coaft, as 

 much as iifhing. Numerous flocks of wild- 

 fowl frequent it, in the winter -, widgeons, 

 geeCe, and ducks : and in the beginning of the 

 feafon efpecially, as they bear a price in the 

 country, they of courfe attract the notice of 

 the fowler. As the coaft between Hampfhire 

 and the ifle of Wight is a peculiar fpecies of 

 coaft, confifting, when the tide ebbs, of vaft 

 muddy flats, covered with green fea-weed, it 

 gives the fowler an opportunity of pradifing 

 arts perhaps pradifed no where elfe. 



Fowling and fifhing, indeed on this coaft, 

 are commonly the employments of the fame 

 perfon. He who in fummer, with his line, 

 or his net, plies the fliores, when they arc 

 overflowed by the tide ; in winter, with his 

 gun, as evening draws on, runs up, in his 

 boat, among the little creeks, and crannies, 

 which the tide leaves in the mud-lands ; and 

 there lies in patient expedtation of his prey. 



Sea-fowl commonly feed by night, when in 

 all their multitudes they come down to graze 

 on the favannahs of the fliore. As the fono- 

 rous cloud advances, (for their noife in the air 

 refembles a pack of hounds in full cry) the 

 attentive fowler liftens, which way they bend 



their 



