142 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Harrisburgh. Deer hunting in the vicinity of Lykens, Williamstovvn, and 

 Grotz, Peters, Berry, and Short Mountains, and up the Juniata in the Black Lo^, 

 Tuscarora and Bald Eagle Mountains. Cox's Island in the Susquehanna, four 

 miles, is a famous resort for duck slayers during the fall and winter, and for shad- 

 seining in the spring. Wild turkeys are found in the valley skirting the Kittatinny, 

 Roberts, and Peters mountains— in Fishing Creek, Stony Creek, Clark's and 

 Povv'eirs Valley. 



Quail and woodcock are found within a few miles of the city. The farmers 

 are pretty strict, however, and forbid their killing, except for a money 

 equivalent. 



Vork Hills, eight miles below the city, is a fair locality for rabbits, grev squir- 

 rels and woodcock. Up the river, on the flats opposite McCormick's' Island, 

 plover of the yellow-legged variety are found in great numbers along the marshy 

 grounds on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Northern Virginia. 



Jack-snipe may occasionally be shot along the river. Their feed'ng grounds 

 being principally. along the marshy creeks and rivulets emptying into the river, 

 and on the edges of the grassy flats when the river is low. Swans, wild geese, 

 and wild ducks are shot above the city. Canvas-backs, red-necks, black, mal- 

 lards, etc. 



Black bass in the Susquehanna and its tributaries. Blue Mountain is a great 

 resort for shooting grey and red squirrels, foxes, minks and weasels. A few 

 partridges are found there. Reached via the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and 

 Reading, and other railroads. 



Delaivare County — 



Chester, the Lazaretto and Marcus Hook, are much visited by Philadelphia 

 sportsmen, for their excellent rail and reed biid shooting. These places are on 

 the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. The Lazaretto is eleven 

 miles from Philadelphia. Chester, fourteen miles has several hotels, and at Mar- 

 cus Hook, or Linwood Station, as it is now called, accommodations may be 

 secured. 



In order to have the best show for a shoot, it will be better to secure a pusher, 

 which can alwavs be done by application at the gun stores of Mr. John Krider, 

 corner of Second and Walnut streets, or Mr. Abraham Peternian, in Dock Street 

 above Walnut, Philadelphia. As this kind of shooting is done altogetner from a 

 clean, dry boat, the shooter requires no special change of clothing. 



By taking the through Washington train in the afternoon from New York, 

 sportsmen can be landed at Chester before midnight, and by looking at any 

 Philadelphia paper can learn at what time it will be high water on the days they 

 wish to shoot, always rating the tide forty minutes earlier at Lazaretto than at 

 the navy yard at Philadelphia, where the record is made. 



English snipe shooting can be had at these points, and one can alternate his 

 sport by taking one day with the rail, and the next with snipe. At Marcus Hook, 

 good ducking is to be had in season. 



Elh County — 



Ridgway. Deer are very abundant ; one of the best shooting g^rounds in the 

 country ; liears, wolves, panthers, foxes ; trout in Clarion River and tributary 

 streams. Reached via the Philadelphia and Erie Division of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad. Hotel $5.50 per week ; guides $2 per day ; teams $3.50. Provide camp- 

 ing outfit. Mountainous country. 



Trout, Straight's and Clarion Creeks, with all the tributaries of the Clarion 

 River, in this county, are good fishing streams. 



Wilcox. Deer, ruffed grouse ; trout in the west branch of the Clarion River. 

 Reached via the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. Board $1 to $3; teams $5; 

 guides procured at moderate rates. Country hilly. 



St. Mary's. Deer, ruffed grouse ; trout. Reached via Philadelphia and Erie 

 Railroad. Hotels, $2.50 per day. 



JErie County- 

 Erie. The harbor affords excellent fishing in summer, Presque Island which 

 forms it being full of small lakes and ponds in which the fish spawn. The sum- 

 mer sport comprises the mascalonge, pike, black bass. Perch and herring are 

 caught in winter. In May and June a fish called blue pickerel is caught in 

 thousands with hand lines from a boat anchored over what are called the Banks. 

 They run from fifteen to twenty inches in length, and are very greedy, taking the 



