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ed and filled with l)lack bass, pickerel and white perch in 

 some of them which afford excellent fishinj^ ; there is also 

 some land-locked salmon and tront. The trout streams in 

 this country are famous for brook trout fishing. 



Unity Pond in Burnham, 4 m. 1. x 2 m. vv. is a favorite 

 fishing resort for black bass and pickerel ; vSandy Pond in 

 Freedom is a favorite fishing resort. 



Sheepscot Gt. Pond, in Palermo, is more directly reached 

 from Augusta or Waterville by team, is 2 m. square, and 

 affords excellent fishing for white ])erch, black bass and pick- 

 erel, also some trout. 



Huntingf* 



No moose. 



Open season on deer for October only. The ])rincii)al 

 point for deer hunting is Montville, where a few are taken. 

 Ruffed grouse, woodcock and duck shooting is very good in 

 most all i)arts of the count \-. 



YORK COUNTY. 



Is tlie southwestern portion of the State ; boundaries : 

 On the north by Oxford County, east by Cumberland County 

 and the Atlantic Ocean, south by Atlantic Ocean, and west 

 by State of New Hampshire. Alfred, shire town, 32 m. from 

 Portland, on Portland «& Rochester R. R. 



Contains 58 lakes and ponds ; one of the principal coast 

 counties, traversed by the eastern and western divisions of 

 the Boston & Maine R. R. from Boston to Portland ; contains 

 many noted summer resorts. Old Orchard, Kittery, Kenne- 

 bunk, Kennebunkijort, York Beach and others. 



Crossing the vState line from Portsmouth, N. H., at Kit- 

 tery, on the eastern division of the B. & M. R. R. you pass 

 through the town of Kittery, where you take the York Beach 

 Ry., from which Chase Pond and Folly Pond are reached, in 

 which is good white ])erch, black bass and pickerel fishing. 

 Passing through the town of Ivliot you may reach York Pond, 

 then through vSo. and No. Berwick to the town of Wells, Bonny 

 Beg Pond is reached, a fine body of water in which are land- 

 locked salmon, trout and black bass, a favorite resort for the 

 fisherman ; passing along this branch of the railroad Kenne- 

 bunk, Kennebunkport, liiddeford, vSaco and Portland are 

 readied ; crossing the .Stale line on the western division of 



