CANADA GOOSE* 
]ays six or seven eggs.' I must," con- 
cludes Buffon, * c beg leave to subjoin the fol- 
lowing extract from Mr. Pennant ; to whose 
ingenious and accurate works I have so often 
been indebted — ■ 
" The English of Hudson's Bay depend 
ei greatly on Geese, of these and other kinds, 
** for their support ; and, in favourable years, 
4 ' kill three or four thousand, which they 
" salt and barrel. Their arrival is impatiently 
" attended: it is the harbinger of spring, and 
" the month named by the Indians the Goose 
" Moon. They prefer islands to the conti- 
" nent, as farther from the haunts of men. 
" The English send out their servants, as well 
44 as the Indians, to shoot these birds on their 
" passage. It is in vainto pursue them : they, 
f { therefore, form a row of huts made of 
" boughs, a tmusquet-shot distance, from each 
" other, and place them in a line across the 
" vast marshes of the country. Each hovel, 
** or— as they are called — stand, is occupied by 
44 only a single person : these attend the night 
" of the birds; and, on their approach, mimic 
44 their cackle so well, that the Geese will an- 
4 svver, and wheel and come nearer the stand. 
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