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Dr. Harward's receipt for sportsmen's boots. 



others, not only of water, but land birds hitherto 

 unknown to mankind : it is likewise very proba- 

 ble that some of our voyagers have mistaken 

 different species of known birds, for some un- 

 known genera. We shall now conclude our de- 

 scriptions with some observations on 



SHOOTING JVILD-FOIVL. 



ee TO be equipped for this sport," observes 

 the Rev. Mr. Daniel, " in severe weather it is 

 essentially requisite to be well clothed." Dr. 

 Harward, one of the best wild-fowl shooters 

 in the kingdom, recommends, if a sportsman's 

 boots be new, that they should be well anointed 

 with half a pound of bee's wax, a quarter of a 

 pound of resin, and the like quantity of mutton 

 suet, or tallow, boiled together, and used luke- 

 warm. Should the boots have been used, beef 

 suet is to be substituted for the mutton. Thus 

 the boots are rendered water-proof; under which 

 the sportsman should wear thick yarn stockings, 

 and over them what is termed wads by the fisher- 

 men. A cap must be worn, made of skin, in- 

 stead of a hat: the fowl will not approach near 

 the latter, and nothing so much or so soon shies 

 them. 



The punt-shooters (men who earn their liveli- 

 hood by attacking the wild-fowl night and day, 

 according as the tide serves) kill great numbers. 





