drive) added to a week or longer of sport at Wawona, would make a 

 royal holiday in which the ladies of the social circle might fitly join. 



The climate is such as can be found only in the resinous, aromatic 

 woodlands of the Sierra Nevada, and the water as pure as the upper- 

 terrestrial heavens, from which it falls in the form of beautiful snow. 



BROOK TROUT. 



Salvelinus Fontinalis. 



A most successful fish-hatchery is located near the hotel, and in itself is 

 a guarantee against any depletion of the trout waters. Thomas Hill, 

 the well-known artist and angler, reports a catch of forty pounds at a lake 

 a short distance from the hotel during the early hours of a single morning. 

 One of them weighed six pounds. 



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