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THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
can go to Parlin Pond and get all the 
fish he wants in the Summer and Fall, 
and he does not need a guide. 
so a good place for partridges. Fifteen 
miles from Parlin Pond is River Settle- 
ment; two hotels. At this point there is 
fishing enough. 
Wood Pond, with three wood ponds 
South is Attian Pond. East from Attian 
Pond is Holeb Pond. Moose River | 
flows through all these ponds, and it is | 
good boating from the Attian Pond to 
Holeb Pond. It is twelve or fourteen 
miles by river, with a carry about half | 
the Gulf of Mexico, and in nearly all the 
a mile. Few sportsmen visit this section. 
The best time for fishing is July, the 
flies are all gone then. 
MIDDLE FLORIDA. 
Mippte F ora is one of the finest 
countries in the world. All along her 
sea coast are beautiful bays and inlets; 
through the country are fine rivers, beau- 
tiful lakes, and pearly brooks. She has 
grand and wonderful springs, whose medi- 
cinal virtues are known in all lands. 
She has magnificent forests of pine, ey- 
press, and hardwood timber, ornamented 
with the beautiful magnolia and other 
flowering trees and shrubs. Her lakes, 
rivers, bays, and inlets are full of excel- 
lent fish. Her sea coast have an abun- 
dance of oysters, fish, turtle, and sponges. 
Her forests abound in a great variety of 
game. Her gardens yield the finest 
vegetables, and have the most beautiful | 
Her | 
flowers in bloom all the year. 
orchards bear the most delicious fruits 
and berries, and her vineyards the finest 
grapes that make the best of wine. Mid- 
dle Florida is bounded on the north by 
Georgia, on the east by the Suwannee 
River, on the south by the Gulf of Mex- 
ico, and on the west by the Apalachicola 
It is al- | 
Six miles southwest is | 
Long Pond; east from Moose River is | 
| are plentiful. 
River. The district from one hundred 
and twenty to one hundred and forty miles 
in length, and seventy to eighty miles 
in width. A peculiar feature in Middle 
Florida is the number of lakelets of clear 
pure water scattered all over the country, 
varying in size from half an acre to an 
acre or more in extent. They, as a gen- 
eral thing, are very deep, have no outlet, 
and contain an abundance of excellent 
fish. They seem to have been placed 
there for a wise purpose—to supply the 
wants of every family at their own doors, 
without hire or reward, with a splendid 
article of food. In all the countries along 
heavily timbered lands in the others, are 
to be found all kinds of game, such as 
bear, deer, wild turkeys, panthers, cata- 
mounts, wild cats, &c. Deer and turkey 
In all the lakes, rivers, 
and creeks are an abundance of the finest 
fish, such as trout, perch, jack or hake, 
catfish, blackfish, bream, &c. On the 
coast there is the finest of oysters, clams, 
turtle, and every variety of salt water 
fish. During the Winter, all the lakes, 
ponds, bays, inlets, rivers, &c., have an 
abundance of every variety of water 
fowl. Sportsmen should visit Middle 
Florida by all means and take a hunt 
and a fish down on the coast. Troy, 
the county seat of Lafayette county, is 
on the Suwannee River, and is at present 
the head of steamboat navigation. It 
contains about fifty inhabitants. It is 
near one of the best regions for hunting 
in all Florida. New Port, on the St. 
Mark’s River, six miles from the Gulf of 
Mexico, was once an important commer- 
cial place. Above the town is one of 
the finest sulphur springs in the State, 
whose waters contain great curative 
powers, and have performed almost mir- 
aculous cures. Before the war, invalids 
