. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . THE surface-boat; copfin-boat;battery; sink, or box. UG-OUTS have been entirely supersededduring the three or four past seasons, onthe waters of the Chesapeake, by the in-troduction of the surface-boat, as repre-sented in the above engraving. This ingenious machine has many local appellations. Those in most general use will be seen at the heading of this article, and at the close of it the reader will find explicit directions, together with a skeleton model of th
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . THE surface-boat; copfin-boat;battery; sink, or box. UG-OUTS have been entirely supersededduring the three or four past seasons, onthe waters of the Chesapeake, by the in-troduction of the surface-boat, as repre-sented in the above engraving. This ingenious machine has many local appellations. Those in most general use will be seen at the heading of this article, and at the close of it the reader will find explicit directions, together with a skeleton model of the same to be used as a guide in building one for his own use. The boat is anchored out on the feeding-grounds, surrounded byinnumerable decoys, resembling as much as possible the canvas-backs, and so balanced in the water that the most observant eye 329
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