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pear at Hudson's Bay, early in May, and 
as soon as the Ice disappears ; collect in 
flocksof twenty or thirty, remain there about 
three weeks, then separate in pairs, and go 
northward to breed ; about the middle of 
August they return to the marshes with their 
young and continue there till September. 
We have before observed that the im- 
provements in agriculture have in a great 
measure compelled these birds to leave 
their native haunts in this country. The 
swamps which in more barbarous times 
yielded only a scanty subsistance to the 
neighbouring inhabitants, by the promis- 
cuous capture of such birds, are now teem- 
ing with them in a domesticated and highly 
improved state. 
Those who have never witnessed the 
numbers fed in some of the fens in Lin- 
colnshire, can form no idea of this golden 
treasure, nor of the beauty of the almost in- 
numerable flocks that enliven those tracts. 
By a careful attention in the breeding, 
two sorts of Geese have been obtained : 
the larger are by some preferred on ac- 
count of the bountiful appearance they make 
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