228. AMERICAN GAMI. 
mountain pastures. -With the exception of a few on 
Long Island, in the northern counties, and about the still 
wild banks of the Delaware, in New York, they are 
already extinct. In New Jersey, with a small wretched 
remnant of the once as abundant heath-hen, prairie-fowl, 
‘or pinnated grouse, a few straggling deer may still be 
found in that remote and little traversed region called 
from its prevailing growth, the pines, lying along the 
Atlantic coast. Elsewhere they exist not. To the west- 
ward of Pennsylvania, and through the South, even so 
far as Texus and New Mexico, through the West to the 
Rocky Mountains, and northward through both the 
Canadas, they are still abundant, and will continue so, it 
may be expected, for .some years to come—in the 
Canadas and the Southern States especially, where the 
laws for their preservation are rigidly enforced, and 
where the greater number of educated men and gentry 
settled throughout the rural districts, have produced 
some effect on the mind of the masses as regards the 
wholesale and useless extinction of game out of season. 
The modes of pursuing and taking this fine animal, 
whether for pleasure or profit, are almost innumerable, 
but of these almost all partake of the poaching or pot- 
hunting system too much to obtain from me more than a 
mere passing notice. 
The first and most generally practiced of these is what 
is variously called driving, or stand-hunting, in which 
the shooters are placed on the circuit of a certain tract 
