HUNTIG AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. ify 
nity, has added new attractions to the 
many in the neighborhood, and the Del- 
aware Valley bass-fishing is destined to 
become as famous as its trouting. Bass 
weighing over four pounds were caught 
last season. First-class accommodations 
can be had at the Fowler House, one of 
the best-kept hotels on the Erie, For 
terms address Mr. Tl’. F. Grandin, the 
proprietor. The Delaware House, Union 
House, and Mr. H. Dutcher will also en- 
tertain guests in excellent style at from 
$8 to $10 per week. 
Monticello is one hundred and twelve 
miles from New York. It is connected 
with the Erie by the Port Jervis & Mon- 
ticello Railway, which traverses the pic- 
turesque Neversink Valley and the wild 
country adjacent to it. High hills rise 
on every side of the village, from which 
wide views of the rugged outlying coun- 
try may be enjoyed. The atmosphere is 
pure and bracing, and fevers of any kind 
never originate in this region. The air 
is peculiarly favorable to asthmatics and 
persons afflicted with kindred diseases. 
A mosquito would be a curiosity in this 
section, Heat never interferes with sleep, 
and neither dampness nor fog rende1 even- 
ing or morning disagreeable. ‘There are 
trout streams in the vicinity, and the 
best of bass-fishing in Pleasant Lake, a 
beautiful sheet of water one mile distant. 
Besides the unsurpassed fishing found in 
vicinity of Monticello, the autumn sca- 
son brings abundance of game, partridges 
and other small game being especially 
plenty. Excellent and ample hotel and 
private boarding-house accommodations. 
About eight miles west of Monticello 
is the celebrated mountain resort, White 
Lake, The drive from Moticello to this 
place is one of the features of the region. 
The road leacz over high hills by easy 
grades, and across deep valleys noisy 
with dashing brooks. Some of the finest 
views in the country are met with be- 
tween White Lake and Monticello, The 
lake lies at the feet of the mountains lift- 
ing up their heads about it, and the wa- 
ter is of great depth and purity, and is 
really one immense spring of living wa- 
ter. It formally abounded in trout of a 
size rarely attained by that species of 
fish, it being on record that they have 
been caught in the lake weighing nearly 
nine pounds. Some years ago, however, 
pickerel were placed in these waters, and 
they exterminated the trout. ° To com- 
pensate for the loss of the latter, the lake 
was stocked with black bass, and the fa- 
vorite sport of black-bass-fishing is now 
one of the great attractions of White 
Lake. Bass weighing from five to six 
pounds: are frequently taken, and the 
piazza columns of the Mansion House 
are ornamented with the “ counterfeit 
presentments” of several of these enor- 
mous fish, captured by guests, The na- 
tural attractions of the place, together 
with its wonderful healthfulness, have 
drawn people to it annually in increased 
numbers, until to-day few resorts equal 
it. The outlying country is much of it 
deep forest, where deer and other wild . 
game still ‘do congregate.” In fact, the 
sojourner at White Lake finds the ad- 
vantages of civilization and the charms ) 
of the “vast wilderness” combining to 
make the place unlike any other resort 
of its class in the country. The Mansion 
Honse, overlooking the lake from an 
eminence a quarter of a mile from the 
village proper; Sunny Glade House, is 
a beautiful spot at the foot of a high ele- 
vation of ground; Mrs. Kirk’s White 
Lake House, on the brow of a hill that 
brings the entire landscape, in every di- 
rection, beneath the eye; the Van Werk 
Cottage, a handsome structure that oc- 
