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fortable sjjorting camps and good hotels may be found, and I 

 think I may safely say fair and considerate treatment will be 

 received. It is imjxjssible to s];ecify jjarticularly every lake 

 or ])ond in whicli there is good fishing. Stopping at any of 

 the stations on tliis railroad irom Washington Junct. to 

 Machias, from there to Calais, or from Calais to Princeton, 

 the sportsman or tourist will be certain of a hearty welcome, 

 easily procure guides, and learn more definitely of the locali- 

 ties herein described. I tliink you would be satisfierl with a 

 fishing or hunting trip to this " vSunrise " county. 



There remains yet another important section in this 

 county to be described ; leaving Bangor for Vanceboro and 

 vSt. John, N. B., on the M. C. R. R. you pass through the 

 town of Danforth, 88 m. from Bangor ; here is Hotbrook 

 Pond, 5 m. 1. one m. w., of easy access, first class V>lack bass, 

 togue and pickerel fishing ; you are al.so within easy reach of 

 Grand Lake and North Ivake, partly in Aroostook County, 

 connected with Spednic and First lyake, which are also called 

 the Chiputneticook or vSchoodic I^akes ; these lakes are 30 m. 

 in length, and connected together, affording first class black 

 bass, white perch, pickerel and togue fishing, also some 

 trout and land-locked salmon. They form the divisional line 

 between New Brunswick and Maine. Excellent accommoda- 

 tions will be found at the Vendome Hotel, also guides. From 

 Danforth the next station is Jackson Brook PI. ; here is 

 Baskahegan and Jackson Brook Lake, famous bodies of 

 water with their inlets, affording first class fishing in every 

 respect ; the next station is Poorest and here Little Tomah 

 Lake in Codyville PI., Musquash Lake and F'arrows Pond, in 

 Topsfield, are easily reached by team, fine black bass, pick- 

 erel, white perch, and in the streams; elegant brook trout 

 fishing ; the next station is Lambert Lake, in T. No. i ; 

 Lambert Lake is a fine body of water, surrounded by moun- 

 tains ; first class trout fishing ; it has recently been stocked 

 with land-locked salmon. There is excellent fishing for 

 trout in the brooks easily accessible from Lambert Lake. 



Vanceboro is the next .station, on the St. Croix River ; 

 at Vanceboro you are on the shore of F'irst Lake where you 

 can take steamers for »Spednic Lake and for Grand Lake, and 

 the sporting camps of Mrs. G. W. Ross, situated on vSpednic 

 Lake ; there is no finer duck shooting in the State than can 



