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THE SPORTSMANS AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
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a beam. In the vicinity of Dingman’s 
Ferry six of these streams thunder down 
the mountain. The Dingman Creek and 
the Adam Creek are particularly prolific 
in these grand works of Nature. The 
Factory Falls, Fulmer Falls, High Falls, 
and Silver-Thread Falls, on the former 
stream, are equal to any in the Catskills. 
They leap over perpendicular ledges, dash 
down rocky terraces, and break into 
great bodies of foam and spray against 
their confines of cliff or the ponderous 
boulders that lie heaped in their course- 
High Falls is a wild reach of stream two 
hundred feet in extent -— a high perpen- 
dicular leap, then & gathering of the wa- 
ters, and then a thundering plunge down 
the slanting but angular face of the rocks. 
Factory Falls is a tumultuous dropping 
of the waters of the creek, wrought to 
their utmost fury by sharp projecting 
rocks and frequent precipices, until they 
writhe and contort themselves into such 
shapes as have gained them the name of 
Maniac Waters. Fulmer Falls are a se- 
ries of most picturesque cataracts. 
Silver-Thread Fall is the crowning beau- 
ty of these mountain torrents. 
thread of water but a few feet wide, but 
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it comes with one continuous fall of a. 
hundred and fifty feet down the face of 
the mountain, every drop of water being 
lashed into the whitest foam. Its bed 
is the solid rock, and dense forest trees 
prevent the sun from entering anywhere 
upon it. The falls on Dingman Creek 
are within from one to three miles of the 
High Falls House, and are of easy ac- 
cess. 
a still greater number of natural curiosi- 
ties, is a mile from Dingman’s Ferry. 
This Creek is five miles in length, and 
has a fall in that distance of nearly one 
fourth of a mile. The explorer of its 
wonders, starting in near its upper wa- 
Adam’s Brook, on which there is | 
ters, must follow it in its torturous and 
perilous course until it reaches the open 
valley, for so encompassed is it by rocks 
and mountains that it is almost impossi- 
ble to find a way out of the ravine. The 
White Montains have nothing surpass- 
ing Adam’s Creek in grandeur and sub- 
limity. Like Dingman and the other 
creeks in this vicinity, it is a famous 
trout stream. In common with all the re- 
sorts on the Delaware, at Dingman’s Fer- 
ry, there is excellent black-bass-fishing 
in the fiver. There are several lakes in 
the vicinity, stocked with pickerel. The 
High Falls House, one of the best-kept 
hotels in the country, can accommodate 
two hundred guests at $10 to $14 per 
week, with special inducement to season 
boarders. The proprietor, Dr. Fulmer, 
makes a specialty of looking after the in- 
terests of his sporting guests. He also 
runs a stage to Port Jervis, connecting 
with all trains. The Bellevue Hotel—a 
splendid house, in the French style — is 
also a popular resort. Terms $2 a day; 
$8 to $12 a week. 
Shohola, one hundred and eight miles 
from New York, is situated in the centre 
of the hunting and fishing grounds of Sul- 
livan and Pike counties, where bear and 
deer abound and trout streams flow in 
almost every direction. It is beautifully 
situated among the mountains overlook- 
ing the Delaware River. There are at- 
tractions of the rarest to be found in the 
vicinity, principal among them being a 
glen which promises to become celebrated 
as a resort. The Shohola Creek, rising 
back in the wilderness of Pike county, 
threads one of the most picturesque, 
weird, and romantic vales in the State; 
forms stupendous cataracts and thunders 
in dim ravines; but nowhere does it com- 
bine all its varied features in an area that 
can be brought at once beneath the eye 
