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south, a station on the Grand Trunk Railway, and the 

 steamer from Lindsay touches at the little wharf every 

 alternate day, so that if preferable you can proceed thither 

 and take rail for Port Hope. This is a very pretty town, 

 lying in a valley on the edge of Lake Ontario, with a very 

 good harbour ; the hills rise gradually at the back of it, slop- 

 ing up to the pine ridges of Orono, and abounding with 

 partridge, hares, and the woodchuck or ground-hog. In the 

 country back of Port Hope, excellent deer-shooting is to be 

 had. The following routes are recommended by a well 

 known sportsman of that district : " Port Hope to Lind- 

 say per rail ; Lindsay to Fenelon Falls ; portage on to 

 Cameron Lake, and you have the shooting on Cameron and 

 Balsam Lakes, and up the banks of Burnt River." Again, 

 "via Peterboro' to Stoney Lake 17 miles — carry your canoes 

 in wagon, — but the country very wild all tlirough the town- 

 ships of AnstnUher and Chandos, though there is abundance 

 of deer." In deer-shooting like this, you must have a good 

 tent, with all the necessary cooking things, and at least two 

 Indian or white attendants ; three or four good hounds are 

 essential, and of the breed between a foxhound and a harrier ; 

 this is considered the best for the purpose, as being generally 

 more compact, and carried in canoes easier and better. 

 Here may be enjoyed to the full by the sportsman the ex- 

 citing method oi still-hunting, peculiar to the summer season. 

 When a herd of deer has been discovered feeding upwind, the 

 hunter stations himself in close ambush well downwind, and to 

 leeward of their upward track, and then sends off an attendant 

 in a wide circle well to leeward, till he has got a mile or two 

 ahead of the herd, when very slowly, observing the pro- 

 foundest silence, he cuts across their direction, and gives 

 them his wind, as it is technically called, dead ahead. This 

 is the crisis of the affair ; if he gives the wind too strongly, 

 if he makes the slightest noise, they scatter in an instant, 

 and away. But if he give it slightly, not fancying themselves 



