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rican Colonies, in which it is probable that a large English gai- 
rison will henceforward always be maintained, would, I am cer¬ 
tain, cause information on American Sporting, which has of late 
years been unfairly undervalued, to be received with eagerness. 
A little enterprise and spirit on the part of editors, would not 
fail to be duly remunerated by increased patronage; and I do 
not despair of seeing the names of some American correspon¬ 
dents attached to the articles in the Sporting Magazine, now 
that it has passed into the hands of “ Craven.* 
That gentleman is, I know, well acquainted with the works 
of American Sporting writers, since he has done me the honor 
to insert in his “ Sporting Recreations,” some remarks concern¬ 
ing the difference of English and American game, published by 
me in the American Turf Register, though credited not to me, 
but to a letter from an American sportsman. 
This, by the way, is of late becoming a common practice in 
our good England. Mr. Carleton, in his Sporting Sketch Book 
for 1842, has published one article by the late Wm. Hawes— 
“ J. Cypress, Jr.” —describing a scene at “ the Fire Islands,” 
which lie at the eastern, or rather south-east end of Long Island, 
off the coast of New-York, the great merit of which consists in 
its accurate allusions to topography, and its graphic pictures of 
Long Island Bay-men. This, Mr. Carleton, for reasons best 
known to himself, has attributed to a “ Gentleman of Kentucky,” 
thereby utterly destroying the whole pith and point of the arti¬ 
cle, and depriving it of all “ maissemblance .” An unfortunate 
little tale of my own, entitled “ The Last Bear,” the scene of 
which is laid in one of the river counties of New-York, and 
which professes in itself to be written, as it was, by an English¬ 
man, is quoted, again, as “A Scrap from the Sketch Book of a 
Rhode Islander,”—again making nonsense of whatever small 
degree of sense the article may have originally possessed. 
Heaven knows ! I am very willing that my countrymen should 
have the benefit of any little Sporting information I may have 
collected during a long residence abroad ; and have no earthly 
objection that English gentlemen of letters, in compiling works 
