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agreed to make use of their batteries. The temperature during 

 the months of October and November of the following season of 

 1855 and 1856 being uncommonly moderate, but few canvas-backs, 

 comparatively speaking, made their appearance on the Chesapeake 

 before December. The weather soon after becoming intensely cold, 

 and continuing so for several weeks, the destruction of ducks on 

 those far-famed feeding-grounds was necessarily quite limited in 

 comparison with the preceding years, and all descriptions of wild 

 fowl sold in our markets at very high prices. 



