WILD FOWL SHOOTING, 
Win fowl shooting in America may properly be distin- 
guished into three classes: the Chesapeake Bay shooting, to 
which, as the finest of all, both in the quality of the game 
killed and the greatness of the sport, the palm must be 
assigned ; sea-shooting, over decoys, which, though tedious, 
and requiring much exposure to wild wintry weather, is 
a favorite amusement with enthusiastic sportsmen; and 
lastly inland duck-shooting, which, in the places where it 
is to be had in perfection, is a most exciting and delightful 
pursuit. 
The game killed, in these three different kinds of 
sport, are as different as the modes adopted of bringing 
them to bag. 
