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would be superfluous to dilate upon it 
here. The county of Fontenac still af- 
fords sport in duck-shooting, as well as 
partridge and snipe, though the birds | 
are considerably thinned out; parties 
knowing the grounds, however, are sure 
of fair sport. The country in the rear 
being rocky and marshy, and thus un- 
suited for farming, still abounds with 
deer, and numbers of sportsmen from 
New York State annually visit it with 
good success. 
The Ottawa country lying back of 
the above district abounds in game of 
every description. Moose and deer are 
plentiful ; excellent duck and partridge 
shooting is to be had, together with a 
fair show of snipe and woodeock, though 
quail are not found east of Kingston, 
while the rivers and lakes teem with 
trout, maskalonge, pickerel, ard bass. 
On the Ontario side of the Ottawa river 
the streams have no trout, probably 
owing to the limestone formation through 
which they run, but those on the north 
or Quebec side, where the primary rocks 
are met with, abound with trout, the 
Madawaska being especially celebrated 
for the size and number of its fish. 
Good duck-shooting may be had all 
along the Ottawa in the long lagoons 
and marshes which fringe its banks; but 
perhaps the best places of all are on the 
Upper Ottawa near Cobden, and ou the 
Lower Ottawa, the Lake of the Two 
Mountains, and Jones Island, the favor- 
ite resort of Montreal sportsmen. The 
moose roams in countless numbers 
throughout all the country to the north 
and nprthwest of the city of Ottawa, 
the Dumoine and Coulonge rivers being 
the most famous localities, and the 
Black and Gatineau river country also 
affording good sport, the latter being 
especially popular from its accessibility, 
and the variety of game to be met with 
there. If the sportsman desires to en- 
gage in the chase of the moose, he can 
obtain the services of trusty Indians at 
Ottawa, or at various points on the 
river. At Sand Point, forty miles from 
Ottawa, lives a noted Indian hunter 
named White Duek. At Pembroke, 
near which place, the Bonnechere and 
Petewawa rivers afford good hunting 
grounds, the Ottawa House will be fonud 
in every sense of the word comfortable, 
and sliould the sportsman procced as far 
as Des Joachims, the proprietor of the 
hotel there—there is only one worthy of 
the name, and that was formerly kept by 
Macdougall—will put him on the right 
track for sport. In the immediate vicin- 
ity of Ottawa quite a number of deer 
are killed annually, and on the Nation 
River, about thirty or forty miles below 
Ottawa, they are very abundant. All 
the small lakes and streams north of Ot- 
tawa abound in trout; and to sum it all 
up, a better region for the exercise of 
either gun or rod, where the sportsman 
is sure to meet with a rich reward in va- 
ried sport, will be hard to find than that 
of Ottawa. 
On Lake Superior and the Mackinaw 
Straits and the streams debouching into 
them, the very best of trout fishing can 
be enjoyed. The region is one of the 
healthiest in the world, and during July 
and August, the temperature is delight- 
ful. The waters around Grand Island, 
in Lake Superior, are well stocked with 
trout, whitefish, and other varieties of 
the finny tribe, and they are as abundant 
now as they were years ago, notwith- 
standing the extensive fishing done there 
annually—the supply seems equal to the 
demand. The best localities in the vici- 
nity lie off of what is known as Point 
Ecorce or Bark Point. Game of every 
