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eleven lakes, among them Summit Lake, 
stocked with black bass and pickerel, and 
the fishing is always first-class. Summit 
Lake House furnishes excellent accom- 
modations, and also boats, tackle, &c., 
for the guests. Game—woodeock, quail, 
ruffed gsouse, squirrels, &e.—abounds in 
the surrounding fields and in the heavily 
wooded stretches adjacent to the house, 
and many of the best known shots of the 
cities annually visit these covers. The 
terms at the Summit Lake House are $8 
to $10 per week, according to location 
of room and length of stay. Carriages 
connect with all trains to and from New 
York. 
Highlands Mills is fifty miles from 
New York, and among all the lakes be- 
longing to the Highland chain, none is 
. found presenting in itself or its surround- 
ings more attractions than the one which 
gives prominence to Highland Mills as a 
pleasure resort, known as Cromvwell’s 
Lake, one and a half miles from the 
station. It is twelve hundred feet above 
the sea, two and a half miles around, and 
lies a perfect gem among the hills. The 
lake is stocked with game-fish, and the 
the boating is unsurpassed. The Lake 
House offers accommodations at $7 to 
$14 a per week, with special terms for 
the season. 
Craigsville is on the Newburg Branch 
of the Hrie, fifty-six miles from New 
York, where there is excellent fishing in 
the ponds and streams near the village, 
and good shooting in the surrounding 
fields and woods. The scenery here is 
among the finest in the Highland region. 
There are several private families that 
take boarders at from $5 to $8 a week. 
Warwick, sixty-four miles from New 
York, on the Warwick Branch, is in the 
vicinity of the Drowned Lands, covering 
seventeen thousand acres of this part of 
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Orange county, and twenty-five hundred 
acres of Sussex county, New Jersey. It 
is a noted resort for woodcock in this 
section of the country. The best of par- 
tridgé, rabbits, and squirrel shooting can 
also be had in the adjacent fields and 
forests, while the lakes near by are fa- 
mous for their pickerel. Board ranges 
in price in private families at $6 to $10 
a week, 
Ellenville is located twenty-two miles 
from the Erie Railway at Middletown, 
and is about ninety miles from New 
York. It is the terminus of the Ellen- 
ville Branch of the Midland Railroad, 
and is convenient to the famous hunting 
and fishing grounds of Sullivan county. 
It is the headquarters of many sports- 
men, who have organized a game protec- 
tive society. They have taken efficient 
measures to stock the lakes and streams 
with game-fish and protect the game in 
the vicinity. Within a short distance are 
numerous lakes, affording splendid fish- 
ing, among them Lake Mohonk. -The 
waters of the lake are gathered in a rock- 
bound hollow in the Shawangunks, a 
erystal spring, in fact, twelve hundred 
feet above the Hudson. 
Deposit, Broome county, is one hun- 
dred and seventy-six miles from New | 
York, and good quail, woodcock, ruffed 
erouse, squirrel, and rabbit shooting is 
to had in the neighborhood. 
Hemlock Lake, noted for its excellent 
trout-fishing and the fine ruffed grouse 
and squirrel shooting to be in the vicini- 
ty, is six miles from Livonia, on the Ro- 
chester Branch. <A line of stages run 
between Livonia and the lake. 
Crooked Lake is a large expanse of 
water, some twenty-two miles long, and 
abounds in salmon trout, pickerel, black 
bass,strawberry bass, whitefish, perch, &c. 
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