HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 97 
through ticket, and it will pay to go in 
the right season. Try it! 
The “Twins” — ‘“ Waushinee ” and 
“* Waushining,”—are located on the line- 
of the Connecticut Western Railroad, 
some twelve miles east of Millerton, on 
the Harlem, and fifty-seven miles west 
from Hartford. They are on high 
ground, some five hundred feet above 
tide water, and held in place by a range 
of hills that barely keep them from slop- 
ping over into the valleys below when 
the wind blows very fresh. From the 
highest of these hilltops one may over- 
look a great extent of scenery, both up 
and down the Housatonic Valley, with 
the grand dome of the Toghkanie range, 
some two thousand feet higher on the 
west, while a spur of the Green Moun- 
tains that trends, exceptionally, east and 
west, shuts in the view by means of the 
hills of Canaan and Norfolk. The Twins 
are ‘‘siamesed ” together by a narrow, 
crooked strait, that is barely boatable in 
low water, which cuts through the 
natural causeway that long served as a 
Lighway, and now affords just additional 
room for the railroad and the ‘ Twin 
Lakes Station.” 
The Twins are about as unlike as two 
peas (marrowfat and sweet peas, for in- 
stance), Waushining being clear, cold, 
deep, and nearly symmetrical, with an 
island of some thirty acres in its north- 
western portion; while Waushineeis shal- 
low, long, and in shape not unlike a 
crook-neck squash, with its outlet at the 
stem end, that winds down through the 
mill and furnace wheels of Chapinville, 
the forges and scythe works at Hammer- 
ton, and finally, after taking in several 
trout streams, finds its way into the 
Housatonic at Sheffield, some ten miles 
further north. Both lakes are well 
stocked with the fish usually found in 
this region, and vast quantities of pick- 
erel and perch are taken from the 
smaller lake during the Winter, and 
many find their way to the city mar- 
kets through pot-hunters, who are: not 
quite unknown even here. The large 
lake—some six miles in circuit—has long 
been famous for its fine pike (pickerel 
they are called thereabouts), and fish of 
five to seven pounds weight being not 
unusual in the bygone days; but since the 
stocking of the waters with black bass 
some years since, the pike are not so 
plenty nor so large. The abundant sup- 
ply of bass, however, more than makes 
up for it, and during the Summer afford 
rare sport to those experts who know the 
when and the how to take them. The 
angler who trusts to a light fly rod and 
fine tackle, with grasshoppers and min- 
now fcr bait, may land from five to ten 
two pound fish in the course of a morn- 
ing, and not find it boy’s play either. 
Close around this lake region are 
numerous trout streams, that tumble 
down the sides of Toghkanie, or bubble 
up in copius cold springs along its base, 
which afford the angler fine sport; not- 
ably More Brook and Bracie’s Brook, in 
Salisbury, and Bartholomew, Spurr, and 
Lee brooks, in Sheffield, not to forget 
the Sage’s Ravine Brook, that divides 
the two States, and can show the finest 
waterfalls, next after Bash Bish, in West- 
ern Massachusetts. These streams are 
hardly large enough for the fly fisher’s 
best efforts, though well fed trout of 
two pounds weight have been taken from 
the Lee brook, and very good creels full 
in Sage’s Ravine and the More brook. 
Of game common hereabouts there is 
a sufficient variety—grouse, woodcock, 
quail, squirrels, and rabbits, not to men- 
tion mink and otter, fox, wild cat, and 
woodchucks; of ducks on the lake, such 
