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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE. 
HO Oue Would ever accuse him who named it 
with presumption. This magnificent place is 
located on the edge of Lake county, four miles 
north by east from Barrington Station, on the 
Wisconsin Division of the Chicago & North- 
Western Railway. At Barrington, stages are 
in waiting, on the arrival of trains, to convey 
passengers to the lake. The short stage ride 
is even more delightful than by rail. The lake 
is belted all around with beautiful groves of 
lumber, among the openings of which grass- 
joyed. There is one good hotel in the village, 
the host of which will aecord io sportsmen a 
hearty welcome. Cary is thirty-eight miles 
from Chieago. 
Ridgefield is built on the edge of an exten- 
sive tract of timber. forty-six miles from Chi- 
cago, and splendid shooting and fishing ean be 
enjoyed in the vicinity. 
The “Badger State” is yearly becoming 
more widely and more favorably known to the 
summier tourist aud the seeker after rural plea- 
PULPIT ROCK, ON THE 
ST. 
CROIX, WISCONSIN. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
plats slope down to the pebbled beach, where 
the pure crystal waters lave the shore. The 
Jake abounds with fish of various kinds, the 
principal varieties being pickerel and black 
bass, which are taken with a spear by torch- 
ight in the shallow parts of the lake, or with 
rod and reel and by trolling. 
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Cary is one mile from Fox River, in which, | 
at this pOint, most excellent fishing can be en- 
sures. Though comparatively a new State, it 
is yet old in. many respects. As long ago as 
the middle of the seventeenth century, it was 
visited by French missionaries and traders, 
who took home with them glowing accounts 
of its splendid scenery, of the freshness of its 
odorous pine-clad hills; of its flashing, daz- 
zling, rapid-running streams, filled with many 
kinds of fish; of its clear, deep, cold, pure, 
