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FIr5t, Devirs Island, a hundred miles or thereabouts 

 down the Chesapeake Bay. Here board and lodging 

 will cost about one pound sterling per week. Close 

 by is Tangier Sound and Archipelago, a wonderful 

 place for canvas-back ducks, red-heads, bald-pates, 

 and especially wild geese. Within a few miles is the 

 mussle-hole, particularly favoured by fowl in north- 

 east winds. In this locality you cannot get on with- 

 out hiring a canoe, un wieldly-looking crafts of great 

 length, but splendid sea-boats when properly handled. 

 I have been out in them when a look over the gun- 

 wale would almost entail your loose locks being 

 dragged from your head and taken to leeward at 

 express speed. Their light draught eminently fits 

 them for duck shooting ; however, nervous men had 

 better avoid them. A companion of mine, who, I 

 believe, never addressed " the Deity " in his life 

 since he had been breeched, for his time had always 

 been more than fully occupied by his club, dress, and 

 the fashionable side of Piccadilly, prayed so earnestly 

 and wept so copiously at the prospect of being upset, 

 that I almost thought that it was a pity that he did 

 not get drowned there and then ; for he never was 

 likely to depart from this life in a more penitent mood. 



Albemarle Sound, Alligator Bay, Currituck Sound, 

 and the head waters of the Pasqotauk river can all 

 be reached from Norfolk, Virginia, a few hours off by 

 water, where wildfowl of every description float in 

 myriads, and in hard and boisterous weather are 

 quite accessible. Here also a boat or canoe, with a 

 guide, are indispensable, but the charges for both are 

 not exorbitant. A single-barrelled 4-bore, weighing 

 about 12 lbs., will be found most useful here, but no 

 weapon that cannot be shot from the shoulder is 

 permitted to be used upon these waters. Hence, 

 home to Southanpton is a matter of eight or nine 

 days, and the passage should not be the least enjoy- 

 able of the trip, if pleasure is to be found in pleasant 





