Excerpt from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, and Spirit, 1806, Vol. 28
There has never been known, in the memory of man a finer season for that noble sport, F oat-hunting.
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