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—— quiet of the northern wilderness, a home, which 
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by experience ; those which at first were tame and 
familiar, are many of them growing cautious and 
distrustful; the character of man stands in low 
estimation among them; and as they know him 
better, they go farther from his reach. Many birds 
which formerly raised their young in our State, now 
confine themselves to regions of greater security ; 
the old gunners on our coast can give more than 
one history of such desertion ; and in some cases, 
the loss has been severe. ‘Thus, for example, the 
wild goose is believed to have once raised its young 
in the temperate climates of the United States. The 
early settlers om the Ohio, testify that they for- 
= merly abounded there at all seasons of the year ; + 
it was common, within the memory of man, to find 
the young birds on the ponds of Kentucky ; but, 
like the deer and the grous, they have learned 
that the world is wide, and now, they find, in the 
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Au: the great Mioiouendéden of being out of hu- 
rakja o on our coast; but now, they have mid 
doned it; gaining nothing indeed by the exchange; 
since there is reason to believe that when it bred ` 
in this climate, it was not compelled to cover its 
a eggs with the: down which tempts so many adven- 
E" e to sea ch for and rifle its nest. 
to say, that these desertions ought à 
j b be . In some few instances; the ex] 
ment has feed tried; but it is found, as might 1 
been foreseen, that no human enactment can sus- 
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