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and unpalatable, or that whim and fashion in this case 
rule the roast. 
Certain it is that, here, it is one of our best sea-shore 
wild fowl, me judice the very best; for its flesh is succu- 
lent and juicy, never rank or fishy, not even sedgy, and, 
when hung long enough in frosty weather, as tender as 
the tenderest, even in the old ganders, which many per- 
sons consider an abomination. 
The breeding-grounds of the Canada Goose, have never 
as yet been, and probably never will be ascertained oth- 
erwise than negatively, as they lie, doubtless, beyond the 
reach of man’s all-daring footstep, there being no point 
however northerly, to which the bold discoverers of the 
highest latitudes have penetrated, at which the Goose 
has not been observed still wending his way northward, 
ever northward. “They were seen by Hearne,” says 
Wilson, in his American Ornithology, “ within the Arc- 
tic Circle, and were then pursuing their way still farther 
north. Captain Phipps speaks of seeing Wild Geese 
feeding at the water’s edge.on the dreary coast of Spitz- 
bergen, in lat. 80° 27’. It is highly probable that they ex- 
tend their migrations to the Pole itself, amid the silent 
desolations of unknown countries, shut out since the crea- 
tion to the prying eye of man by everlasting and insu- 
perable barriers of ice.” 
Throughout the United States and the British provinces 
from the Straits of Bellisle and the Gut of Canso east- 
ward, to the Osage river westward; the biennial migra- 
