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 Fishing and Hunting Resorts. 



Contains 367 lakes and pontls. Dover shire town, at the 

 terminus of the Dover, and Foxcroft Branch of M. C. R. R. 

 from Newport Junct., also on the Bangor »& Aroostook Ry., 

 54 m. from Bangor by either railroad. There are no prettier 

 New England villages than Dover and Foxcroft, separated 

 only by the Piscataquis River. Sebec Lake, 4 m. from these 

 towns, reached by team, is a lovely body of water, 12 m. x 4 

 m,, one of the four original land-locked salmon lakes in 

 Maine ; there are many beautiful cottages on its shores, ex- 

 cellent land-locked salmon, trout, white perch and black 

 bass fishing ; sporting camp of B. M. Packard at head^f the 

 lake, sporting camp of Geo. P. Thompson about midway of 

 the lake, both reached by steamer; this lake may also be 

 reached from Sebec village on the shore of the lake. The 

 tributaries are closed. Near by Dover and Foxcroft are sev- 

 eral smaller lakes and ponds affording excellent fishing, to 

 wit, Millbrook and Garland Pond, 4 m., reached by team, the 

 three Buttermilk Ponds, in which are trout, togue, and land- 

 locked salmon, reached by steamer on Sebec Lake and 1^2 

 m. carry, 12 m. from Foxcroft; also Black Stream, 2^4 

 m., and Alder Stream, 6 m. from Foxcroft, affording excel- 

 lent trout fishing. The sportsman may safely leave his speci- 

 mens for mounting, when at Foxcroft, with C. M. Hoxie, 

 the taxidermist, and be sure of proper treatment and a first 

 class job. 



At the Foxcroft Exchange the sportsman will find a de- 

 lightful home, with every convenience ; good livery connect- 

 ed ; J. W. Ronco, Prop. 



Here is located the manufactory of F. E. Bailey, manu- 

 facturer of the celebrated " Bailey Flies," where all kinds of 

 flies and fishing tackle may be procured of the finest quality 

 at the usual rates. Schoodic and Seboeis Lakes, 8 m. x 2 m. 

 each, wdth a carry over a good road of i }i m. between, are 

 reached from Schoodic East or West Seboeis station on B. & 

 A. R. R., 64 m. from Bangor, and in close proximity to the 

 stations ; these are elegant lakes, large togue sometimes 

 weighing more than 20 lbs., some trout, and excellent black 

 bass and white perch fishing ; pickerel fishing in Seboeis 

 Lake is unexcelled ; Trout Pond, or Endless Lake, and sev- 

 eral ponds, where excellent trout fishing may be had, are 

 easily reached from these stations ; some of the streams flow- 



