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headquarters for a vast fishing and hunting country to the 

 north and west. At the Patten House every convenience 

 will be found and teams and guides may be engaged. This 

 is a favorite starting place for Shin Pond, Trout Farm, and 

 the Sourdnahunk region, famous as a hunting country for big 

 game and for unexcelled fishing. At Norcross station, in this 

 county, you are at headquarters for hunting and fishing expe- 

 ditions, in all directions, either down the West Branch, or up 

 the West Branch to Sourdnahunk by carr}-, 15 m., and to 

 Ivake Chesuncook, and other lakes described in the chapter 

 on Piscataquis County. 



Hunting. 



This is a great game county ; deer abound in large num- 

 bers in nearly every town beyond Old Town, and there is 

 good hunting for these at nearly every railroad station 

 beyond Old Town to Vanceboro ; it is also one of the great 

 moose counties ; Schoodic, Seboeis, Norcross, Millinockett, 

 Grindstone, Staceyville, and Patten, heretofore described in 

 the chapter on Aroostook County, and more particularly de- 

 scribed in the next chapter, are favorite resorts for the fisher- 

 man and the hunter ; nearl}^ all parts of the famous hunting 

 grounds are reached from these stations ; usually the experi- 

 enced sportsman has his guides engaged in advance of his 

 arrival, his trip planned, and his guides meet him on his ar- 

 rival at Bangor, or at the station at the railroad. Hotels, 

 sporting camps, registered guides, outfits, etc., at all stations. 



It is difficult to discriminate between the hunting 

 grounds for deer in this county northerly and westerly of 

 Bangor, this game is so plentiful ; favorite resorts for moose 

 hunting are from the R. R. stations on the line of the B. & 

 A. R. R. from Brown ville to Patten, nearly 75 m. through a 

 practically unbroken wilderness ; ruffed grouse and ducks are 

 plentiful, also woodcock, bears, foxes, and wild cats afford 

 most excellent and exciting sport for the sportsman. 



PISCATAQUIS COUNTY. 



Boundaries : North by Aroostook, east by x\roostook 

 and Penobscot, south by Penobscot and Somerset, and west 

 by Somerset county ; area, land surface about 3600 sq. m., 

 water area about 100 sq. m. One of the greatest, if not the 

 greatest, fish and game county in the state. 



