The Narrows between Hart and City Islatid and the Blauzes are much frequented by vast flocks of wild ducks. The varieties consist principally of the old wife, broad bill, coot, black duck and whistler. In the fall of 1846, 1000 ducks are said to liave been shot here, in the course of six hours.

The Pelham bridge, sometimes called the Eastchester creek bridge, communicates with the neck and the Westchester shore. This place is well known as a favorite resort for anglers. When

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the tide serves, fish of various kinds and ])arlicularly the largest sized bass are taken. Oil the 3d of June, 1844, Mr. Benjamin Fowler captured a striped bass,weighirig sixty-three pounds. When measured it was found to be four feet six inches long. A single steak of this fish weighed eight pounds. Des Brosses Hunter, Esq., also caught a bass liere weighing fifty pounds.

During the summer of 1841, a bass drifted on the neighboring beach, weighing forty-three pounds. Mr. yVlbert Woodhull vviili a trolling line captured a fish in these waters, whose weight was thirty-six pounds, and Mr. Geo. Cox Furman, with a reel, another weighing twenty-one pounds. In the fall of 1838, the proprietor of the bridge informed me, that 769 bass of various sizes were taken at this place by angling. September and October are considered the best fishing months. Sheeps head are also occasionally taken here. A few years since a monstrous seal was shot in the bay, opposite the bridge, w^eighing eight hundred pounds. Pelham bridge was originally commenced by a company of gentlemen in the immediate neighborhood, who after sustaining severe losses, were compelled to relinquish the enterprize, which it was reserved for the late George Rapelje, Esq. to complete.