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every morninfi:, connectin;^ with the first train to Calais, and returning in the 

 afternoon on the arrival of the train at Princeton. Canoes, hotels, and guides at 

 Princeton. Board $1 to $1.50 per day. Guides' wages, white or Indians, $2 to $2.50 

 per day. Camping is generally preferred. David Dresser, at Princeton, will 

 secure reliable guides and full information. Country hilly. The Dobsis club 

 has a camp here. 



Machias. Grouse, woodcock, bears and deer, salmon, black fish, brook trout. 

 Reached by boat from Eastport or Rockland, or by yacht; also by wagon. 

 Indians, canoes and provisions, can here be secured for a trip up the Uisper 

 Machias River, where there is good hunting for deer, bear, and other game. 



Calais. Black meganders, ducks, ruflFed grouse, woodcock, pickerel. Salmon 

 and trout fishing in Grand Lake, on northern border of Washington County. 

 Calais is on the St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad, or reached by steamer from 

 Eastport, or by stage from Bucksport, there connecting with Boston steamers. 



Dennysville. There is excellent trouting, with good woodcock shooting in the 

 Denny's River, sixteen miles from Eastport. Reached by boat or wagon. 



I'anceborough. TrouP fishing in the St. Croix River. The route is via the 

 European and North American Railway. 



Princeton. Bear, deer, ruffed grouse, ducks, geese, plover ; brook and sal- 

 mon trout. For route see Grand Lake. Hotels. 



Grand Manan. The Island of Grand Manan is situated in the Bay of Fund}', 

 about thirty miles southeast of Eastport, Maine. It is thirty miles long and about 

 nine miles wide, and lies in nearly a north and south direction. There are two 

 small villages on the island and habitations are scattered over its greater part. 



There are several small streams on Grand Manan which contain trout. The 

 south, west and north coasts of the island are rocky and abrupt. 



The southern end of the island is a favorite breeding ground of the herring 

 gulls, {Larus argent at us)., and their eggs are sought and used as food. The Pas- 

 samaquoddy and Micmac Indians live near South Head and hunt the porpoise 

 and seal for their oil. The eastern coast is low compared with its other shores, 

 and it is that side of the island that is mostly inhabited. It is covered principally 

 with spruce and birch timber, and it has the peculiar mossy spruce swamps which 

 are common to northern Maine. Several years ago deer were common on the 

 island, but the Indians and whites combined, have nearly exterminated them. 

 There are a few ruffed grouse, woodcock, thrushes, (hermit, olive backed and 

 golden crowned), robins, svvallovv's, (barn, white-bellied, and bank swallows), 

 warblers, flycatchers, etc., etc., that are. found on the island, also the hare, grey 

 rabbit and red squirrel. To the southeast, and east of Grand Manan are many 

 beautiful islands which are full of interest to the naturalist. They are as follows': 

 Two Islands, Three Islands, White Head, Eastern and Western Green Islands, 

 Sheep, Pumpkin, Low Duck, Little Duck, Big Duck, Long, Ross, Cheney's 

 Head, and Nantucket Islands. To the southeast are the Black Ox, Seal, Eastern, 

 Western and Yellow Merle ledges, which are favorite breeding grounds of the 

 seals. There is also one small island called the White Horse, which is a general 

 " headquarters " and breeding ground of the Leach's Petrels. They burrow into 

 the rich loam and deposit one egg in each hole. When caught in the hand they 

 disgorge a brownish oil which is not very sweet scented. The eider duck and 

 black guillemot breed on the rocky shores of the numerous islands, and an occa- 

 sional pair of arctic puffins, (parrot bill murre,) are found breeding in the same 

 localities. The razor-billed auk breeds in considerable numbers on the Yellow 

 Merle ledges, and twelve years ago it was common to nearly all the islands of the 

 Bay of Fundy. The island of Grand Manan is a good collecting ground for the 

 naturalist at any season. In the autumn the ornithologist can collect the follow- 

 ing birds in the Bay of Fundy : — Loons, red-throated diver, foolish guillemot, lit- 

 tle auk, eider duck, pomarine skua, (gull chaser), herring gull, Wilson's tern, 

 black guillemot, puffin, great black-backed gull, purple sandpipers, red phala- 

 rope, etc. etc. 



Those who enjoy fishing can gaff lobsters, spear flounders, catch cod, hake, 

 pollock, and an occasional halibut. Grand Manan can be reached from Boston, 

 by rail, by the Boston and Maine Railroad, to Milltown, Me., and from there by 

 boat to Eastport, thence by some fisherman's boat or the British mail packet to 

 Grand Manan. The boats of the International Steamship Company ply between 

 Boston, Portland and Eastport, and any person can go by boat the entire distance 

 from New York, if they wish to, by connecting with the Boston steamers for 

 St. John. 



The house of Simeon F. Cheney, Nantucket Island, affords best of accommo- 

 dations, boats, etc. 



