HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 73 
Fox chasing is the sport of this part 
of the world. About Christmas there is 
a grand meet, and the farmers rendez- 
vous at some mansion and bring their 
hounds, and the whole of the holidays 
are generally spent in this most exhila- 
rating sport; it requires the hunter to be 
well mounted. Capt. Blow has a fine 
pack of hounds, The gray fox is the 
most common kind, and they have so in- 
creased that they have nearly destroyed 
the rabbits.~ In the Nottoway River 
there is an abundance of beaver and 
otter, and there have been no_profes- 
sional trappers in the vicinity for a long 
time. There is a fine opening for such 
a class. This section is the paradise of 
a sportsman who is willing to rough it. 
Capt. William Blow, whose postoffice 
address is Littleton, Sussex county, Va., 
will cheerfully answer all inquiries. He 
has lived in Sussex county all his life, and 
what he says can be accepted as the 
frozen truth. The Captain is a genial 
gentleman, a true sportsman, and a gal- 
lant soldier, being a graduate of West 
Point, and he can probably be induced 
to take as boarders a few gentleman 
sportsmen, who either want quail shoot- 
ing, deer hunting, or fox chasing. The 
route there is by Petersburg to Stony 
Creek Station, on the Petersburg & 
Weldon Railroad, from there twenty 
miles by private conveyance. 
JEFFERSONTON, VIRGINIA. 
This section of Virginia, and especi .]- 
ly this immediat» locality, is considered 
the best hunting ground anywhere in the 
middle part of the State. The fields are 
alive with quail and rabbits, and the 
woods abound in squirrels; wild turkeys 
are also numerous. Those who desire 
first rate sport must leave the line of the 
railroad, where every station sends forth 
daily a motley gang of amateur hunts- 
men, armed with every variety of gun 
and accompanied by every conceiveable 
style of dog, from the thoroughbred 
pointer down to the “cur of low degree,” 
and who scare up all game within a ra- 
dius of five miles. The very best place is 
a little village of about a dozen houses 
ealled Jeffersonton, in Culpeper county, 
and fifteen miles from Culpeper Court 
House. It is surrounded by many well- 
tilled farms, which have large fields, and 
in these stubble fields the partridges 
(quail) feed. There are but few of the 
citizens who keep dogs; their time, as a 
general thing, is too precious to be wast- 
ed in hunting, and but few, very few, of 
the lands are posted. To a party of 
good shots, with fine dogs, they can get 
their fill of the best of shooting, though 
they are advised not to go until the first 
of November; for it will take several 
heavy frosts to kill the weeds enough to 
allow the dogs to scent the birds. 
To those who desire to get full infor- 
mation let them write to George Myers, 
at Jeffersonton, who will board them, 
and give them all the particulars, though 
to get there you take the cars at Wash- 
ington City at 7:30 A. M; from there 
Myers will, if notified, take you to Jef- 
fersonton, distant ten miles. 
TROUT REGIONS OF NORTH 
CAROLINA. 
When “stern Winter no longer rules 
the skies,” and the bleak, cold March 
blasts have blown themselves out, the 
denizens of our closely packed cities and 
towns begin to long for shady forests, 
limpid streams, and the delicious abandon 
of alazy Summer vacation. Especially 
are the disciples of the rod casting around 
to find, if possible, some new locality 
where they can practice their gentle art. 
