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and the dividing ridge with deer, quail, turkey, foxes, raccoons, and 

 opossums. The sportsman, with an humble heart, might tind a 

 contented home here. Next comes the James, called in earlier and 

 better days, the Powhatan — which, with the York, makes what 

 is called, simply by the way of preeminence, the Peninsula. It 

 was the theatre of the earliest civilization of the Old Dominion, 

 and the seat of its first metropolis. It extends from the bay up- 

 ward some seventy or eighty miles — its upper portion bounded 

 by the Pamaunkee and Chickahominy. This peninsula also 

 abounds with game. The deer have returned, verifying Horace — • 

 Ferisque ursiis occupabitur solicm. 



South of the James and near its mouth are two tributaries — 

 Elizabeth River, and Nansemond — having their sources in the 

 Dismal Swamp. This whole region is well adapted for sporting 

 adventure. 



Next we have the Chowan and its tributaries — the Blackwater, 

 Nottoway, and Meherin — and thep the Roanoke, with its tributaries 

 — the Staunton and the Dan, which rise in the Alleghany 

 Mountains. 



Every portion of Virginia is easily reached by steamboat or rail 

 from Norfolk, or Baltimore, or Washington. 



The Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad runs from Norfolk, 

 four hundred and eight miles to Bristol, Tennessee —passing 

 Suffolk, in Nansemond, near the Dismal Swamp, through Isle of 

 "Wight, Sussex and Surrey Counties (where deer and other game 

 are almost as abundant as when the Indians ruled the land), by 

 Petersburg, Burkesville, and Lynchburg, at each of which places 

 it is crossed by railroads going North and South. The Sea-Board 

 and Roanoke Railroad also runs from Norfolk through Nansemond 

 and Southampton Counties, to Weldon, N. C, crossing the Black- 

 water, Nottoway, and Meherin — the tributaries of the Chowan. 

 This railroad is an extension of the daily line of steamboats from 

 Baltimore to Norfolk. A line of fine steamers also ply between 

 Norfolk and Richmond, stopping at the various landings on the 

 river. York River and its tributaries — the Mattaponi and the 

 Pamaunkee — are accessible from Richmond and Baltimore by the 

 York River Railroad, and steamers from West Point to Baltimore. 

 All the landings on the Rappahannock are reached by steamers, 

 which run twice a week between Baltimore and Fredericksburg. 

 Every portion of the Potomac below Washington is accessible by 

 steamers from that city, or Baltimore, or Norfolk. A line of rail- 

 road (the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac) extends from 

 Quantico on the Potomac (accessible by steamer or railroad from 

 Washington), due south along the head of tide-water by Fred- 

 ericksburg, Richmond, and Petersburg, to Weldon, N. C. The 

 Washington, Virginia Midland, and Great Southern Railroad runs 

 from Washington by Manassas (where it connects with the Man- 



