l60 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Bello-ws Falls. Black bass fishing in the Connecticut River. Excursions are 

 made by summer visitors to Warren's Pond, in Alstead, N. H. Good hotels. 

 Reached via the Vermont Central Railroad. 



Grafto7i. Fo.xes are numerous on the hills ; ruffed grouse, partridges, rabbits 

 and raccoons are abundant. Take the Central Vermont Railroad to Bellows 

 Falls or Rockingham. Good hotel, F. and H. Phelps, proprietors. Country- 

 rough. 



Windsor County — 



H'eston, is in the heart of the Green Mountains, and the neighborhood abounds 

 in trout streams that are easily accessible from the village, and visited but by 

 few besides the resident anglers. In the main streams the trout are of fair size. 

 Then there is the Cold Spring Reservoir, literally swarming with fine, large 

 trout, but except in the first of the open season, they will not answer a summons 

 every day, nor are they a gamy fish. Weston is twelve miles from Chester, a 

 station on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad, and connected by daily stage and 

 can be reached the same day from Boston or Troy, N. Y. There is a good hotel. 

 There are also plenty of accomplished and gentlemanly anglers to act as guides, 

 notablv Messrs. William Holden and H. B. Rogers, who are au fait in all that 

 pertains to rod and gun, and own craft upon the reservoir. 



Tne Battenkill, on the west side of tlie mountain, and running through Man- 

 chester, Sunderland and Arlington, is a famous trout stream, coursing through the 

 open meadow most of the way, affording the finest sport for casting, as the de- 

 ponent can testifj' from personal knowledge. Then the fish are large and gamy. 

 The stream is greatly fished, but still the supply is kept up. In the towns men- 

 tioned, are capital hostelries, notably the Elm House, at Manchester, kept by C. 

 F. Orvis, the maker of excellent cheap rods, and himself the most accomplished 

 fly fisherman in the State, ever courteous and ready to put his guests in the way 

 of securing a full measure of sport with rod or gun. 



VIRGINIA. 



This State presents a wide and attractive theatre for the gun 

 and the rod ; with water, plain, and mountain, every variety of 

 sport may be had in its season. There are twenty-five hundred 

 square miles of tide water within its limits, extending from the 

 Potomac to Albemarle Sound, a distance of one hundred and thirty 

 miles, embracing most of the Chesapeake Bay, and stretching up 

 into the interior, by several large tidal streams, one hundred and 

 sixty miles. In these waters are found numerous species of fish 

 and every variety of water fowl. On the rivers, too, near the head 

 of tide, sora and jack snipe abound in their season in all the marshes. 

 Of these rivers, beginning on the north, we have first the Potomac, 

 then the Rappahannock — the two making the narrow peninsula of 

 sixty miles in length, and seven to twelve in width, called the 

 Northern Neck — al^ounding in game and fish ; then the Piankitank, 

 and various streams in Gloucester and Matthews — all arms of the 

 sea, as it were, emptying into Mob Jack Bay, a sort of inland sea 

 — then York River, with its tributaries. Mattaponi and Pamaunkee 

 — which make a peninsula of thirty miles in length, and from two 

 and one-half to seven in width, bringing both streams within the 

 range of the gunner and the angler, abounding with fish and fowl, 



