Excerpt from Field Sports in the United States, and the British Provinces of America, Vol. 2 of 2
The greater portion of these winter on the shores of the Southern States, and many in countries yet to the south of these, and during the spring and summer, pass eastward and northward along the coasts of the Atlantic, to their breeding places in the extreme North, on the cold shores of Labrador, returning thence in autumn to the milder climates of Florida, and the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The great tract of shallow, land-locked water, which lies along almost the whole southern side of Long Island, improperly called the Great South Bay, for it is rather a lagoon than a bay, "occupying a distance of seventy miles uninterrupted inland navigation," bounded on the south by the shingle beach and sand hills, which divide it from the open Atlantic, and on the north by the vast range of salt meadows, which form the margin of the island, is the resort of countless flocks of aquatic fowl of every description, and is especially the paradise of gunners. The marshy shores of South-western Jersey, the broad embouchure of the Delaware, the many beautiful streams which flow together into the Bay of the Chesapeake, the inlets of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, the tepid waters of Florida, the great bay of Mobile, and the sea-lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain, at the mouths of the Mississippi, all abound in their season with these aquatic myriads; but in none, perchance, are they more systematically and regularly pursued, than in the waters of Long Island. The mode of pursuing and taking them, is nearly the same everywhere, as they, like all species of wild fowl, must be taken by stratagem, and from ambush, not by open pursuit.
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