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most likeh^ will display more ignorance 

 respecting v/hat distance the object is from 

 him. Place the same object at 300 j^ards, 

 you may as well not ask him the distance 

 at ail, for that distance is totally beyond his 

 scale of judgment. 



Now the German jager, brought up in 

 the forests to shoot at every thing, for the 

 sake of practice, which presents itself, with 

 the rifle, from the age of fifteen, is taught 

 all distances by the practice of years; for 

 he can never offer himself to serve any 

 gentleman as a jager, unless he can produce 

 certificates from the masters of the forests, 

 that he has served an apprenticeship of 

 seven years, and is a perfect shot. Jagers, 

 from their natural servitude and great prac- 

 tice, are in no want of being taught dis- 

 tances ; the knowledge and precision of 

 judging different distances comes to them 

 naturally from practice, from their early 

 youth. 



The American back-woodsman has a 

 much greater field to exercise his talents by 

 practice, from living in a country cultivated 

 only around his own log-wood hut, for a 



