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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. UPPER CANADA--NIAGARA DISTRICT. "All this and much more have I seen since my departure from England; but I doubt if any transmarine spectacle gave me half so much pleasure as did the sight of the jolly, red, weather-beaten face of the first bumboat woman who came alongside our gallant frigate at Spithead!" Mundy's India. Deer-stalking in the woods--Of the best kind of gun for Upper Canada--The log-hut and process of clearing the land--Water-fowl--Novel kind of card-table--Long Point--Silver and cross foxes--Singular kind of Boa--Starky's Museum--Racoon--Squirrels--Rifles--Black corps on skates--Long-tailed Ducks--The Bald Eagle--The wind-up. Deer-stalking in the woods in winter requires the quickest eye, and must be conducted with the greatest possible caution. In all the parts of the forests which the deer inhabit are to be found cedar or alder swamps; these are lower than the surrounding ground, on which the timber grows larger, stronger, and it follows, as a matter of course, wider apart; whereas, in the swamps, the stems of the cedar and alder (especially the former, which is evergreen) are much closer, growing quite in a thicket. The thickets are selected by the deer as their sheltering places during the day; in them they find their feeding, and secure, in the thickness of the place, they have a great advantage over the hunter, who has to approach them through the more open forest, and rather on an inclined plane. The odds are, therefore, much against him, even should he be stealing up wind, and have the elements in his favour in the shape of a gale of wind, which sets any shaken or rheumatic trees groaning and wheezing. Nature has, moreover, given this watchful animal her assistance by changing its coat at this season of the year into a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154278521
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154278522
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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