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very extensively for inclosing the game-parks of England and 

 France. It grows from eight to ten feet in height, and is the 

 toughest and strongest tree that can be found, making, with its 

 interlocking and elastic branches, a hedge that would resist a 

 battering ram. The trees are being planted inside the big 

 fence of barbed and woven wire, and will eventually take its 

 place when the latter becomes weakened through rust and 

 exposure. 



There will be no hunting in the park at present, though in 

 future years, when the animals have multiplied beyond the 

 resources of their domain, it is possible that Mr. Corbin may 

 adopt this means of thinning them out. 



The development of this enterprise is being watched with 

 decided interest by sportsmen and naturalists. Success in New 

 Hampshire, when it shall have been demonstrated beyond the 

 peradventure of a doubt, will prompt similar enterprises in other 

 parts of the country. While much interest is felt in the intro- 

 duction of foreign species, Americans are naturally most con- 

 cerned with the successful conservation of bands of American 

 big game, the Elk, and the Antelope, and the Buffalo. May 

 these wild creatures yet feed on a thousand hills of the New 

 England and other Eastern States, and on the game preserves 

 of the west ! 



Besides the New Hampshire park, Mr. Corbin has two other 

 game preserves. On his Long Island estate he now has twenty- 

 one Elk and about eighteen Deer, and at Manhattan Beach he 

 has twenty-five Elk. At the latter place he has ten acres 

 inclosed with an open wire fence. There will soon be dug here 

 a large pond, which will be filled with salt water from the tides 

 of Sheepshead Bay. In this pond are to be a dozen Seals and 

 ten Sea-lions ; the former from St. John's, Newfoundland, and 

 the latter from the Pacific coast. 



