. The American sportsman: . ent,)that our fears are rather gratuitous. Mr. W. W. Levy, of Havre de Grace, to whom we are indebtedfor a rough but very complete drawing of a battery from whichthe above sketch was taken, as well as much other valuable in-formation upon this subject, assures us that a box built such as wehave described could not, by actual experiment, be made to sinkbelow the surface, when filled with water, loaded with two hundredand fifty pounds of pig iron and the addition of two stout men. This experiment we cannot but consider a very extreme one,and the result most conclusive
. The American sportsman: . ent,)that our fears are rather gratuitous. Mr. W. W. Levy, of Havre de Grace, to whom we are indebtedfor a rough but very complete drawing of a battery from whichthe above sketch was taken, as well as much other valuable in-formation upon this subject, assures us that a box built such as wehave described could not, by actual experiment, be made to sinkbelow the surface, when filled with water, loaded with two hundredand fifty pounds of pig iron and the addition of two stout men. This experiment we cannot but consider a very extreme one,and the result most conclusive; and we shall no longer hesitate inrecommending our sporting friends to consign themselves, withouthesitation or fear, to one of these cunning machines whenever afitting opportunity presents itself. The ease with which one of these batteries rides on the surfaceof the bay, even during a heavy blow, is very remarkable; wehave been quite comfortable in them, when it required two strongtarsmen to row a lio-ht irunnins: 338 LEWISS AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. AMBUSH ON THE FLATS. We noticed last season a very simple but at the same timerather ingenious contrivance erected on the flats in Elk River,from which to shoot ducks. We have never seen any thing of thekind before, but presume something similar may have been adoptedelseAvhere by others. This ambush or blind, as all such contrivances are termed mthis particular section, was constructed in tbis wise:— Some shooters, taking advantage of low tide, had driven intcthe soft mud, in the very centre of the widest expanse of feedingground, and in the very path of the ducks as they flew up anddown the river, four strong posts, forming a square. These posts or piles were perforated on their upper portion,which extended far above low-water mark, with large holes ofsufficient capacity to permit the introduction of long hickory pins,which passed entirely through and projected several inches fromthe inside. Upon these pins thus secured was
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