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England, and in the service of different persons on the 

 continent ; but I never met with one of them who was 

 not a native of Falconswaerd. It has been the practice 

 with these sober and industrious men to stay with their 

 employers during the season for hawking, and to pass 

 the remainder of the year with their families at home. 

 John Pells, now in the service of my friend John Daw- 

 son Downes, Esq. of Old Gunton Hill, Suffolk, and 

 who also manages the Heron Hawks, kept by subscrip- 

 tion in Norfolk, is (I believe) the only efficient falconer 

 by profession now remaining ; all the others whom I 

 remember are either dead or worn out, and there has 

 been no inducement to younger men to follow the 

 employment of their forefathers." 



Under these circumstances it would be superfluous, 

 did it even come within the scope of this publication, 

 to enter into any details on the Art of Falconry. To 

 those, however, who feel an interest in learning by 

 what means so wild and apparently so unmanageable a 

 bird has been tamed and rendered subservient to man, 

 we would recommend a perusal of Sir J. Sebright's 

 Treatise just mentioned; of the articles on Falconry in 

 the two French Encyclopaedias ; and of an excellent 

 and philosophical Essay on the Flight of Birds of Prey, 

 published by M. Huber of Geneva, in the year 1784. 



