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to find a handful—chiefly so-called knives and finely chipped arrow 
eads. 
The Gull ponds proved a most attractive sight, well worth 
coming a long distance to see. ‘Thousands of birds in adult and 
first year’s plumage circled round in the air uttering their hoarse 
cries of distress as the visitors picked their way among the nests 
and young. The ponds, which taken together cover some acres of 
which they nested on Manton Common, close by, in ‘flashes’ in 
the sand hollows, now drained for agricultural purposes. At one 
time the eggs were regularly taken and sold, but since the Wild Bird 
A VIEW IN TWIGMOOR GULLERY, 
Protection Act they have been strictly preserved ; and though the 
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on Crossby Warren. When the ponds are quiet the Heron, Mallard, 
Teal, Shoveller, Sheldrake, and Snipe may be observed through 
a field-glass to follow their usual avocations in close proximity ; and 
twenty-five years ago large Pike, taken from the Gull Ponds by 
Herons, but too large for consumption, might be found in the 
woods. I have seen the dead Pike, all weighing about four pounds 
I should judge, but I only have their mode of capture on the 
August 1895. 
