HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 47 
Americans will probably find the cheap- 
est and most direct route via Rochester. 
Take the steamer at Charlotte in the 
evening, get a comfortable berth and a 
good night’s rest 
in time for the morning train, of the 
Midland Railway, purchase tickets for 
Lakefield, on Katchewaunook, 
where the steamer is in waiting to con- 
vey you to Mount Julien; time from 
Charlotte about fourteen hours ; total 
cost less than $4,00 per head, Any 
further information desired respecting 
Stoney Lake and vicinity will be cheer- 
fully given on application to Messrs. R. 
C. Strickland & Co., North 
Province of Ontario, Canada. 
Lake 
Donro, 
THE OSWEGATCHIE COUNTRY. 
The east or main branch of the Os- 
wegatchie River rises in Crooked Lake; 
that is, if we are to call the longest the 
main branch. From Crooked Lake it 
runs in a northeasterly direction some 
six or eight miles, to where it forms the 
branch from Deer Pond (Colvin’s Lost 
Lake) country. It is known above this 
point as the Robinson River, taking this 
name from a hunter named Robinson, 
who had a shanty and hunted near it 
some twenty-five years ago. Inthe mean- 
time it received the waters from Orin 
Lake, Grassy Gall, Cracker, West, and 
two or three other small ponds. The 
stream that it here unites with is formed 
by the outlets of Partlon Lake, Gull, 
Big Deer, Little Deer, Clear and Nick 
Ponds, and the drainage of a big balsam 
swamp known as “Inlet Swamp.” Be- 
low the junction, some two miles, it tum- 
bles over a ledge of rocks some twenty 
feet in height. Here, at the foot of these 
falls, known as the ‘‘ High Falls,” on the 
inlet are found speckled trout of three to 
four pounds weight, and now and then 
You reach Port Hope’ 
one that gets away with your tackle so 
easy that you are sure “ he was the big- 
gest trout you ever saw.” Above the falls 
are plenty of trout weighing from a quar- 
ter to a halfpound. Half a mile further 
down you come to “The Plains,” a tract 
of country that has been cleared of tim- 
ber by wind and fire, some three miles 
long, and varying in width from a quar- 
ter to three-quarters of a mile, and near- 
ly surrounded by hills of from three to 
five hunded feet high. Near the upper 
part of these plains a small spring brook 
and very cold spring empty into the riv- 
er from the east side, making a good 
‘trout hole” when the water is not too 
high. In the brook are also small trout. 
For the next two miles the river is bro- 
ken by several rifts or chains of rocks 
across it, and from two to ten rods in 
length. Over some of them it is neces- 
sary to lift your boat, All along here, 
and for some miles further down, the fish- 
ing is fine, and for a stretch of ten miles 
the chances for a shot at a deer by day 
or jack light is very good. On the west 
side of the river, near the foot of the 
plains, and distant from one and a half 
to two miles, are the ‘“ Five Ponds,” tak- 
ing their name from their number. These, 
or a part of them, are excellent ponds for 
deer. About this section there is now 
and then a wolf and panther; just enough 
to frighteen the timid ones, but not 
enough to pay the hunters who trap for 
them, they seldom getting more than two 
or three ina season. At the foot of this 
still water is some three miles of rapids, 
on which, about the 1st of June, is some 
good fishing. Below these rapids is 
the ‘ Drowned Land,” as it is called, be- 
ing a large swamp overflowed by the 
draining of Cranberry Lake. This lake is 
used as a reservoir from which to obtain 
| extra water for Tunning saw logs, and 
