126 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



At this point a wide and beautiful expanse of water, formed by damming the 

 Ramapo River, affords the visitor a rare opportunity for boating and fishing.' 



Sloatsburg, on the Erie Railroad, Truxedo Lake, three miles, Potague'Lake, 

 one mile, and Cedar Pond, two and a half miles distant, all abound with bass and 

 pickerel. Good game grounds in the vicinity. 



Cedar Pond. There is excellent woodcock shooting in the vicinity. 



Saratoga Co'anty— 



Dean's Corners. Bears, ruffed grouse, pigeons, squirrels, rabbits, trout in the 

 Beaverkill and other streams. Board $2 at hotel, §1 to $2 in private house ; 

 guides $2. The country is hilly and mountainous. 



Schenectady County— 



The Mohawk River affords fine bass fishing, at several points. 

 Schuyler County — 



Watkins. Ruffed grouse, wild ducks, rabbits, squirrels ; black bass, pickerel 

 in Lake Seneca, and trout in the streams. Reached via the Northern Central 

 Railroad. Hotels $2 to $3.50 ; boats 25 cents per hour. 



St. Z,au7rence County — 



Ogdensburg. In Black Lake, six miles up the Oswegatchie, is pickerel, pike 

 and bass fishing. Take boat and camping equipments from the city. In the 

 Oswegatchie below the dam, bass and perch are caught. Mascalonge in the St. 

 Lawrence below the city. Duck shooting is good in season, with partridges, 

 woodcock and other varieties of game. Ogdensburg is reached via the Central 

 Vermont, or the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. Opposite 

 Ogdensburg is Prescott, the terminus of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railroad, 

 and an important point on the Grand Trunk Railroad. Two ferries, running three 

 boats and making half-hourly trips, connect Prescott and Ogdensburg. Alexan- 

 dria Bay and the Thousand Islands, the famous fishing and camping grounds, are 

 about thirty miles up the river, the islands extending from Brockville to Cape 

 Vincent, si.xty miles. This great pleasure resort is reached from Ogdensburg, by 

 various lines of steamers. During the season, boats leave at 8 and 9.30 a. m., and 

 I and 6 r. m., making the run in two hours. 



Steuhen County — 



Hornellsville. Ruffed grouse, quail, rabbits, black and grey squirrels, of the 

 latter very good shooting. Hornellsville is on the Erie road, ninety-one miles 

 from Buffalo. 



Lake Salubria. Salmon trout, pickerel, perch, strawberrj', Otsego, and black 

 bass. 



Crooked Lake. This lake is about twenty-two miles long, and abounds in sal- 

 mon trout, pickerel, black and strawberry bass, perch, whitefish, etc. The Grove 

 Spring House, Stephen Moore, proprietor, is on the east shore of the lake, six 

 miles from Hammondsport. Route : Erie Railway to Elmira, or Penn Yan. 

 Goodhue and Cranberry Lakes afford fine bass, perch, and pickerel fishing. 



Suffolk County- 

 See Kings County. 



Babylon. A comfortable village with several hotels, the American, Lagrange, 

 Sampwanis and other houses. The fishing here is famous. Great South Bay. to 

 which stages run, is one half mile south. A steamboat crosses several times daily, 

 to Fire Island. The peninsula of which Fire Island is the western extremity, 

 extends forty miles to the northeast, and shelters Great South Bay, Moriches 

 Bay, and Stiinnecock Bay. The fishing ground off Fire Island is about thirty to 

 thirty-four miles offshore, and about four to six miles long, having from twelve 

 to sixteen fathoms on the bank ; the bottom is hard gravel, with small stones. 

 There are plenty of cod. and a few halibut. The ground is known to many of the 

 Noank fishermen. It is the path of the European packets, and land is just in sight 

 from the ground. The course is south by west from Fire Island, and it is found 

 bv the lead. 



Anglers also have fine sport taking bluefish with a rod in the vicinity of Fire 

 Island, both inside and outside of the Bay. They are of large size, running from 

 ten to tliirteen jiounds. An ordinary two-jointed bamboo bass-rod, is used with 



