1 62 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



assas Gap Railroad leading to Front Royal and Shenandoah Valley), 

 by Gordonsville, Charlottesville (where it connects with the Ches- 

 apeake and Ohio Railroad,) by Lynchburg (where it connects with 

 the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad) to Danville (where it 

 connects with the ferry,) by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where it 

 connects with the Valley Road, extending to Staunton, where 

 connection is made with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. On 

 either side of this Valley Road, at distances varying from five to 

 forty miles, is found a great variety of game ; deer, ruffed grouse 

 (there called pheasants), bears, wild turkeys, etc. Most of the 

 mountain streams have speckled \.xow\.— Saimo fontinaUs — the 

 more abundant and larger, the deeper you advance into the 

 mountains, and the further from civilization. Perhaps the best trout 

 fishing on the continent may be found in the head- waters of Cheat 

 River in Pendleton, Grant, and Tucker Counties, West Virginia, 

 and in the head-waters of the Greenbrier, in Bath and Highland. 

 Va., and Pocahontas, W. Va., and in the Gauley River, in Nicholas 

 and Webster Counties, W. Va. The Cheat River waters may be 

 reached in forty miles from the Valley Railroad, and the others 

 from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in less than thirty miles. 



The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs from Richmond to 

 Huntingdon (four hundred and twenty three miles), passing Char- 

 lottesville, Staunton, the famous White Sulphur Springs in Green- 

 brier, the Great Falls of the Kanawha, etc. After passing the Blue 

 Ridge, this line supplies the greatest abundance and variety of 

 game and the wildest field for adventure of any district in the State. 

 Deer, bear, ruffed grouse, turkeys, and trout are more abundant 

 and accessible than elsewhere ; it presents a magnificent field for 

 camping parties. 



The Richmond and Danville Railroad extends one hundred and 

 forty miles to Danville, and forms a part of the Piedmont Air-line 

 to Atlanta. It traverses Middle Virginia, where the game mainly 

 consists of quail, hares, squirrels and wild turkeys, and where the 

 waters contain very few fish, dams and seines being fatal to them. 

 Above Danville, on the Dan River, the case is different. There 

 the game becomes more abundant, and the mountain streams have 

 many trout. 



Among the mountains of the State are found many wild hogs, 

 which do not hesitate to attack the traveller, and are, without doubt, 

 the most dangerous denizens of the mountains. They are usually 

 found in herds of from five to twelve, and the sight of a human 

 being is the only signal for attack that they require. The intruder 

 has then nothing left him but to outrun them, or climb a tree and 

 wait for them to leave. This would be a good place to go for those 

 who like to be hunted as well as to hunt, so as to enjoy both phases 

 of pleasure. 



Accomack and Northampton Counties. — The eastern shore of 



