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HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 71 
auswer his purpose. The principal spring 
at Orkney, the mineral ingredients of 
which are sulphates of magnesia and 
iron, is known by the euphonius name of 
“Bear Wallow,” because it was herein 
that they rolled and weltered ere the en- 
croachments of man drove them from the 
valleys far up the surrounding mouatain- 
sides. Here too, deer range over the 
forest-covered mountains in goodly num- 
bers. The wild turkey finds plenty of 
cover wherein to roam unmolested. That 
game and delicious bird, the autocratic 
ruffed grouse, the wildest but most de- 
sirable of all our game birds, struts over 
his rough haunts beneath cover almost 
impenetrable to man, but frequently 
leaves his secluded abode for some grain- 
field in the vicinity, wherein he is often 
flushed and killed. All over the moun- 
tains, the barking of the timid gray squir- 
rel may be heard, and from the valleys 
below, comes the piping of Bob White, 
in the dreamy Autumn days. 
VIRGINIA SPRINGS. 
The Virginia Springs are but twenty- 
four hours distant from New York, the 
last twelve of which is through a most 
beautiful region, passing by the Shenan- 
doah Valley, and the fine mountain 
scenery of West Virginia. By taking 
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the 
White Sulphur, Sweet, Red Sweet, Bath- 
Warm, Rockbridge, or whatever point 
the tourist might wish to be transported 
to, can be easily reached. The traveler, 
by leaving the train at Alleghany Sta- 
tion, has only nine miles staging to the 
old Sweet Springs, and to the White 
Sulphur none at all, the cars stopping 
within a stone’s throw of the hotels. The 
White Sulphur Springs are the most fre- 
quented, but the old Sweet is generally 
preterred tu any of the other resorts on 
account of its being less crowded, and of 
its unequalled location. Situated in 
Monroe county, in a beautiful valley, it 
is surrounded by charming highland 
scenery, and the temperature is delight- 
ful, even in July and August. The hotel 
and cottages accommodate seven or 
eight hundred guests, and is very well 
kept. Game of all kinds, fish, flesh, and 
fowl, is so abundant as not to be appre- 
ciated. Woodcock frequently are shot 
within five hundred feet of the house, and 
a mile or two back in the hills is one of 
the finest drives for deer to be imagined 
by the most ardent sportsman; while for 
the disciples of Izaak Walton, ten min- 
utes’ walk of the house is a trout brook, 
where the capture of two to three pound- 
ers is an every day occurrence. Every 
day they he.ve speckled trout served up 
on the table, which, with tender, juicy 
venison steaks, and side dishes of wood- 
cock, pheasants, Xec., form a mene un- 
surpassed anywhere. The deer are actu- 
ally so plentiful that they are often met 
with on the wayside, and seen crossing 
the roads ahead of passing teams. Alto- 
gether it would be difficult to find a re- 
gion within a day’s journey of New York 
that offers such inducements to the hunt- 
er, whether of fur, fin, or feather. 
GENTLY WOOING. 
Hear how gently Mr. J. M. MeCann 
woo the sportsmen to the “happy hunt- 
ing lands” around Bridgeport, West Vir- 
ginia: “ Though strangely overlooked by 
sportsmen, this is one of the finest hunt- 
ing grounds on the continent. All the 
land is full of grouse and quail, and the 
mountains abound in deer and bear. The 
pigs are fattened on trout in the wild, 
remote districts, where game laws are un- 
heard or unknown. The Valley of Can- 
nan is filled with puma and bear; board- 
