GAME AND FISH RESORTS. I3I 



Sodus Bay. Pike, pickerel and bass are caught here. Take the Rome, Water- 

 town and Ogdensburg Railroad. 



Yates County— 



PeiiK Van. The birds are the ruffed grouse, woodcock, quail, and wild ducks, 

 and of fur-bearing animals, the mink, muskrat, red fox, grey squirrel, and grey 

 rabbit are found. Hotel accommodations of an excellent character can be found 

 at Penn Yan. The sixjrting club of the county is called the Forrester Club of 

 Yates County. Penn Yan is on the Northern Central Railway. In Keuka Lake 

 are salmon trout, whitefish, black bass, perch, pickerel, suckers, rock bass, sun- 

 fish and bullheads. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Area 50,704 square miles; population 1,071,361. The State 

 may be divided into the coast region, the middle country and the 

 mountain district. The coast line is much broken by sounds, num- 

 erous islands and broad bays and lagoons. The coast belt, extend- 

 ing across from the northern and southern boundaries, and inland 

 eighty or one hundred miles, is a level expanse, partly sandy and 

 covered with pine barrens, and partly marshy and swampy lands, 

 The Great Dismal Swamp, extending into the State from Virginia 

 on the North, and the Little Dismal lying between the sounds, are 

 the most prominent of the numerous swamps, which, throughout 

 the State, cover three million acres. Back of the coast region, the 

 middle hill country gradually rises toward the west, until it merges 

 into the mountains of the Alleghany Range, Throughout the State 

 from the marsh to the mountain, the sportsman will find game of 

 all the varieties common to the Southern States. Railroad and 

 steamboat travel are supplemented by the saddle horse, a mode of 

 travel much more in vogue among the people of the South than in 

 any other part of the country. Hotels are not always to be found, 

 but where these are lacking the visitor will find such entertainment 

 as the country affords, proffered with characteristic hospitality. 

 Jiertie County — 



The Chowan and Roanoke Rivers, with Albemarle Sound, are excellent shoot- 

 ing grounds for geese, swan, brant and ducks. The shooting grounds are acces- 

 sible by boat or yacht from Colesdam, Ashland or Merry Hill. 



Brunsivicli County— 



SmithTjiUe. See Wilmington. 

 Buncombe and, the Adjoininff Counties— 



That portion of the State lying west and north of the Blue Ridge, and south of 

 the Alleghanies, is known as western North Carolina. It is about one hundred 

 and seventy-live miles in length, with an average breadth of seventy-five miles. 

 It embraces si.xteen counties, about seven thousand square miles. 



The valleys have an average elevation of two thousand feet, and are generally 

 well studded with farms and hamlets, but the mountains are, and for centuries to 

 come will remain, wildernesses. In them game is abundant, but in the settle- 

 ments it is growing scarce, owing to the indifference of the people and law- 

 makers, oil the subject of game laws. 



