330 AMERICAN GAME. 
The true and gnostic mode of shooting, however, is 
from the points or islands, over which the ducks and 
geese fly in going up or down the bay, according as the 
wind may be, and on which blinds or screens are con- 
structed, concealing a seat on which the sportsman 
quietly and comfortably awaits the advent of the fowl, 
the teams of which may be seen at a long distance, so 
that their approach, and the doubt to whose stand they 
will give the shot, renders the sport most exciting. 
Retrievers of the same character with those described 
above, are used in this flight-shooting; and the use of, 
two heavy fourteen or sixteen pounds single guns, carry- 
ing 4 or 5 oz. of No. 1 to B shot, as I have recommend- 
ed in my Field Sports for fowl shooting in general, is 
greatly preferred to that of one double gun, heavier in 
fact, but as regards each barrel, lighter, and, therefore, 
neither so safe nor effective as the two singles in succes- . 
sion, and by far less easily managed. 
The most celebrated of these stations is Carrol’s 
Island, long rented by a club of sporting gentlemen, and 
famous for the astonishing sport it was wont to furnish, 
year after year. The Narrows, also, between Spesutia 
Island on the western shore, Taylor’s Island at the mouth 
of the Rumley, and Abbey Island at the mouth of the | 
Bush River, Legoe’s Point on the last named stream, 
and Robbins’ and Ricketts’ Points, near the Gunpowder, 
are all favorite and famous stations. 
The sport is greatly enhaneed by the difficulty of the 
