UPLAND SHOOTING. 
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was twelve years since within fifty miles off New-York, such is 
in the interior of the southern tier of counties of that State, and 
such is in hundreds and hundreds of places in the West, the 
autumn shooting of America. 
And that, mine English readers, without a game-keeper or a 
preserve in all the length and breadth of the land ; and, I might 
almost say without a game-law,* so limited is the sphere ol 
operation of these latter, so narrow and perverse their enact¬ 
ments, and—above all—so little are they regarded. But this 
alas! will soon, if not amended, abolish altogether the Field 
Sports of America. 
P. S. The above note, when published, was subsequently discovered 
to be premature, and, as concerns Rockland County, is still unfortunately 
incorrect. With regard to Orange County, it exists now as above stated, 
having been passed by the Supervisors of that County, to whom the de¬ 
partment of Game Laws has recently been entrusted by an act of the 
State Legislature 
March, 1851 
