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through April the bass fishing is superb, but I would not encourage angling in May. 

 which is the spawning season. 



New River is no marsh-lined, reed-bordered alligator creek like many streams 

 on the southern seaboard, but a delectable broad water, with bold wooded shores, 

 which are interrupted by occasiqnal fresh-water creeks and umbrageous promon- 

 tories, which are successively unfolded to the enraptured gaze as the excursionist 

 proceeds on his voyage in steamboat or naphtha launch; and all along this beautiful 

 estuary club houses, shooting boxes and villas have taken possession of advantageous 

 sites. Conspicuous on the water front is the "Glencoe Stock Farm," operated by 

 Thos. A. Mclntyre, Esq., of the New York Produce Exchange, bearing some 

 similitude to Mt. Vernon on the Potomac, with 'its pretty waterside pier, steam 

 launch, pleasure yachts, cozy waiting house, flight of 100 steps surmounting the 

 wooded heights, and carriage road winding by graded ascent through a natural 

 glen. Within the year, since the completion of the W. N. & N. Railroad, of which 

 Mr. Mclntyre is president, traffic has grown to proportions which command the 

 unremitting services of two large freight and passenger steamboats, with accom- 

 modating docks and warehouses at two points. One of these wharves is 652 feet 

 long. Government improvements are being pushed at various points. Game is 

 quite as abundant as fish. Geese, ducks, brants and other wild fowl congregate 

 along the margins of the sounds and at the mouths of estuaries. Deer and wild 

 turkeys are in the timber. Partridges and quail are found in the old fields and 

 plantitions. Bears are the pests of farmers by their nocturnal visitation to hog 

 pens. Coons and 'possums are abundant. 



I am somewhat particular in detail, because I believe New River to be the 

 coming winter and summer resort, by its supervening natural attractions, its equable 

 but bracing climate, and the accessibility with which it can now be reached from all 

 points. Hitherto it has been little frequented, but the development of many new- 

 industries, and the investment of large capital right there is bound to bring it into 

 notice. There are good hotel accommodations at Jacksonville, the county seat of 

 Onslow, and a thrifty village. If the visitor would wish to make headquarters at 

 Newburn, it is within an hour and a half by rail. 



NOTE. This chapter was written in March, j?95. EDITOR. 



